[PATCH] ARM: Gemini: Add support for PCI BUS

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Nov 29 14:32:46 EST 2010


On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 06:05:07PM +0200, Paulius Zaleckas wrote:
> No he really should NOT use readl/writel. The ONLY difference
> between readl/writel and __raw_readl/__raw_writel is endianess
> conversion. __raw_*l is not doing it. Which to use depend only
> on HW.

Wrong.  readl/writel have barriers too to guarantee ordering between
device accesses and memory accesses.  (device accesses are already
ordered with respect to themselves.)  __raw variants do not
guarantee the relative ordering between memory accesses and device
accesses.



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