From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753180AbeDLWio (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:38:44 -0400 Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.29.96]:52492 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753008AbeDLWin (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:38:43 -0400 DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 smtp.codeaurora.org A795B60264 Authentication-Results: pdx-caf-mail.web.codeaurora.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=codeaurora.org Authentication-Results: pdx-caf-mail.web.codeaurora.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=okaya@codeaurora.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] MIPS: io: add a barrier after register read in readX() To: James Hogan Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, arnd@arndb.de, timur@codeaurora.org, sulrich@codeaurora.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Ralf Baechle , Paul Burton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1522760109-16497-1-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org> <1522760109-16497-2-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org> <20180412215149.GA27802@saruman> <20180412215855.GB27802@saruman> From: Sinan Kaya Message-ID: <33c9c074-e0a5-7552-9993-269cd85101aa@codeaurora.org> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:38:39 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180412215855.GB27802@saruman> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 4/12/2018 5:58 PM, James Hogan wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:51:49PM +0100, James Hogan wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 08:55:04AM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote: >>> While a barrier is present in writeX() function before the register write, >>> a similar barrier is missing in the readX() function after the register >>> read. This could allow memory accesses following readX() to observe >>> stale data. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya >>> Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann >> >> Both patches look like obvious improvements to me, so I'm happy to apply >> to my fixes branch. > > Though having said that, a comment to go with the rmb() (as suggested by > checkpatch) to detail the situation we're concerned about would be nice > to have. I can send a new version. No worries. Functional correctness is more important at this moment. I can accommodate any nice to haves. > > Cheers > James > -- Sinan Kaya Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.