[PATCH v4 3/7] scsi: dpt_i2o: eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs

Sinan Kaya okaya at codeaurora.org
Mon Mar 19 19:50:03 PDT 2018


Code includes barrier() followed by writel(). writel() already has a
barrier
on some architectures like arm64.

This ends up CPU observing two barriers back to back before executing the
register write.

Since code already has an explicit barrier call, changing writel() to
writel_relaxed().

Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya at codeaurora.org>
---
 drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c b/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c
index fd172b0..3c1e64a 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c
@@ -1300,7 +1300,7 @@ static s32 adpt_i2o_post_this(adpt_hba* pHba, u32* data, int len)
 	wmb();
 
 	//post message
-	writel(m, pHba->post_port);
+	writel_relaxed(m, pHba->post_port);
 	wmb();
 
 	return 0;
@@ -1390,7 +1390,7 @@ static s32 adpt_i2o_reset_hba(adpt_hba* pHba)
 
 	memcpy_toio(pHba->msg_addr_virt+m, msg, sizeof(msg));
 	wmb();
-	writel(m, pHba->post_port);
+	writel_relaxed(m, pHba->post_port);
 	wmb();
 
 	while(*status == 0){
@@ -2797,7 +2797,7 @@ static s32 adpt_send_nop(adpt_hba*pHba,u32 m)
 	writel( 0,&msg[2]);
 	wmb();
 
-	writel(m, pHba->post_port);
+	writel_relaxed(m, pHba->post_port);
 	wmb();
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.7.4




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