On 4/12/2018 5:51 PM, James Hogan wrote:
> But why don't we always use wmb() in the writeX() case? Might not the
> cached write to DMA buffer be reordered with the uncached write to MMIO
> register from the coherent DMA point of view? I'm waiting on feedback
> from MIPS hardware folk on this topic.
Are you asking about this?
#if defined(CONFIG_CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON) || defined(CONFIG_LOONGSON3_ENHANCEMENT)
#define war_io_reorder_wmb() wmb()
#else
-#define war_io_reorder_wmb() do { } while (0)
+#define war_io_reorder_wmb() barrier()
#endif
There is a write barrier in writeX() but seem to be different from platform
to platform.
I'm not familiar with the MIPS architecture. We can always use a wmb() but it
could hurt performance where it is not needed.
This is the kind of input we need from the MIPS folks if compiler barrier is
enough or we need a wmb() for all cases.
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