Re: [PATCH] alpha: io: reorder barriers to guarantee writeX() and iowriteX() ordering

[Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>]

On 4/2/2018 1:48 PM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> memory-barriers.txt has been updated with the following requirement.
> 
> "When using writel(), a prior wmb() is not needed to guarantee that the
> cache coherent memory writes have completed before writing to the MMIO
> region."
> 
> Current writeX() and iowriteX() implementations on alpha are not
> satisfying this requirement as the barrier is after the register write.
> 
> Move mb() in writeX() and iowriteX() functions to guarantee that HW
> observes memory changes before performing register operations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
> Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
>  arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h | 14 +++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h b/arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h
> index d123ff9..4c533fc 100644
> --- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h
> +++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h
> @@ -341,14 +341,14 @@ extern inline unsigned int ioread16(void __iomem *addr)
>  
>  extern inline void iowrite8(u8 b, void __iomem *addr)
>  {
> -	IO_CONCAT(__IO_PREFIX,iowrite8)(b, addr);
>  	mb();
> +	IO_CONCAT(__IO_PREFIX, iowrite8)(b, addr);
>  }
>  
>  extern inline void iowrite16(u16 b, void __iomem *addr)
>  {
> -	IO_CONCAT(__IO_PREFIX,iowrite16)(b, addr);
>  	mb();
> +	IO_CONCAT(__IO_PREFIX, iowrite16)(b, addr);
>  }
>  
>  extern inline u8 inb(unsigned long port)
> @@ -382,8 +382,8 @@ extern inline unsigned int ioread32(void __iomem *addr)
>  
>  extern inline void iowrite32(u32 b, void __iomem *addr)
>  {
> -	IO_CONCAT(__IO_PREFIX,iowrite32)(b, addr);
>  	mb();
> +	IO_CONCAT(__IO_PREFIX, iowrite32)(b, addr);
>  }
>  
>  extern inline u32 inl(unsigned long port)
> @@ -434,14 +434,14 @@ extern inline u16 readw(const volatile void __iomem *addr)
>  
>  extern inline void writeb(u8 b, volatile void __iomem *addr)
>  {
> -	__raw_writeb(b, addr);
>  	mb();
> +	__raw_writeb(b, addr);
>  }
>  
>  extern inline void writew(u16 b, volatile void __iomem *addr)
>  {
> -	__raw_writew(b, addr);
>  	mb();
> +	__raw_writew(b, addr);
>  }
>  #endif
>  
> @@ -482,14 +482,14 @@ extern inline u64 readq(const volatile void __iomem *addr)
>  
>  extern inline void writel(u32 b, volatile void __iomem *addr)
>  {
> -	__raw_writel(b, addr);
>  	mb();
> +	__raw_writel(b, addr);
>  }
>  
>  extern inline void writeq(u64 b, volatile void __iomem *addr)
>  {
> -	__raw_writeq(b, addr);
>  	mb();
> +	__raw_writeq(b, addr);
>  }
>  #endif
>  
> 


Can we get these merged to 4.17? 

There was a consensus to fix the architectures having API violation issues.
https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg225971.html



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Sinan Kaya
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