[PATCH v4 1/6] RDMA/bnxt_re: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:30:34AM -0500, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> On 3/20/2018 10:20 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:00:49AM -0500, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> >> On 3/20/2018 9:48 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 10:47:43PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> >>>> Code includes wmb() 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/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/qplib_rcfw.c | 8 ++++----
> >>>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/qplib_rcfw.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/qplib_rcfw.c
> >>>> index 8329ec6..4a6b981 100644
> >>>> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/qplib_rcfw.c
> >>>> @@ -181,10 +181,10 @@ static int __send_message(struct bnxt_qplib_rcfw *rcfw, struct cmdq_base *req,
> >>>>  
> >>>>  	/* ring CMDQ DB */
> >>>>  	wmb();
> >>>> -	writel(cmdq_prod, rcfw->cmdq_bar_reg_iomem +
> >>>> -	       rcfw->cmdq_bar_reg_prod_off);
> >>>> -	writel(RCFW_CMDQ_TRIG_VAL, rcfw->cmdq_bar_reg_iomem +
> >>>> -	       rcfw->cmdq_bar_reg_trig_off);
> >>>> +	writel_relaxed(cmdq_prod, rcfw->cmdq_bar_reg_iomem +
> >>>> +		       rcfw->cmdq_bar_reg_prod_off);
> >>>> +	writel_relaxed(RCFW_CMDQ_TRIG_VAL, rcfw->cmdq_bar_reg_iomem +
> >>>> +		       rcfw->cmdq_bar_reg_trig_off);
> >>>
> >>> Woah, this may not be safe..
> >>>
> >>> The definition of writel_relaxed() is that it is fully unordered, so
> >>> the above two writes may change order now. Broadcom guys would have to
> >>> ack if that it is OK or not for their hardware.
> >>>
> >>> In general this is not an OK approach for a mechanical
> >>> conversion.. Only the first writel can be convereted.
> >>>
> >>> You need to check all your patches to make sure there are no
> >>> subsequent writel's in the places touched.
> >>
> >> I paid special attention to this one and went to check the barriers
> >> document. According to the document, writes (whether it is relaxed or not)
> >> are always observed by the HW inorder with respect to each other.
> > 
> > Oh interesting, that document got revised to make writel_relaxed less
> > relaxed a few years ago, didn't know that. Thanks.
> > 
> > However, this is still not OK, the full code is:
> > 
> >         /* ring CMDQ DB */
> >         wmb();
> >         writel(cmdq_prod, rcfw->cmdq_bar_reg_iomem +
> >                rcfw->cmdq_bar_reg_prod_off);
> >         writel(RCFW_CMDQ_TRIG_VAL, rcfw->cmdq_bar_reg_iomem +
> >                rcfw->cmdq_bar_reg_trig_off);
> > done:
> >         spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cmdq->lock, flags);
> > 
> > 
> > And the definition of _relaxed allows the writes to order outside the
> > spinlock region, which is very likely to be wrong in this driver.
> > 
> > I'm not sure adding a mmiowb() just to use a writel_relaxed is any
> > sort of win though?
> 
> I'd prefer this. 
> 
> mmiowb() on ARM64 is empty. mmiowb() guarantees that code also works for PPC too.
> 
> I'll switch to this instead so it works for everybody.

It looks like a compiler barrier on x86 so that seems fine too.

Jason