[PATCH] ARM: fix badly implementation of wmb

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 12:21:51AM +0800, tom.leiming at gmail.com wrote:
> From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming at gmail.com>
> 
> Commit e7c5650f6067f65f8e961394f376d4862808d0d2
> 
> 	ARM: 5996/1: ARM: Change the mandatory barriers implementation (4/4)
> 
> implements wmb as dsb plus outer_sync, which will make wmb
> much more strict than required. In fact, it is enough for dmb to
> keep the partial order of two stores, so restore wmb as dmb to
> fix possible performance degrade caused by the commit e7c5650f.
> 
> Also the patch defines __iowmb as mb to fix the issue which the
> commit e7c5650f addressed.

So I have another patch which changes rmb() from being a dmb to a dsb.

With these two patches combined, we end up with:

rmb() = dsb()
wmb() = dmb()

which makes rmb() stronger than wmb(), which means there's something
wrong.  rmb() should never be stronger than wmb().