[PATCH] scsi: mpt3sas: remove redundant wmb on arm/arm64
Sinan Kaya
okaya at codeaurora.org
Fri Apr 7 13:28:26 EDT 2017
On 4/7/2017 1:25 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
>> The right thing was to either call __raw_writel/__raw_readl or
>> write_relaxed/read_relaxed for multi-arch compatibility.
> writeX_relaxed and thus your patch is definitely wrong. The reason is
> that we have two ordering domains: the CPU and the Bus. wmb forces
> ordering in the CPU domain but not the bus domain. writeX originally
> forced ordering in the bus domain but not the CPU domain, but since the
> raw primitives I think it now orders in both and writeX_relaxed orders
> in neither domain, so your patch would currently eliminate the bus
> ordering.
Yeah, that's why I recommended to remove the wmb() with a follow up
instead of using the relaxed with a follow up.
writel already guarantees ordering for both cpu and bus. we don't need
additional wmb()
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Sinan Kaya
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