[PATCH v3 1/2] asm-generic: Add memory barrier dma_mb()

Kefeng Wang wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com
Sun May 22 19:00:50 PDT 2022


The memory barrier dma_mb() is introduced by commit a76a37777f2c
("iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Ensure queue is read after updating prod pointer"),
which is used to ensure that prior (both reads and writes) accesses
to memory by a CPU are ordered w.r.t. a subsequent MMIO write, this
is only defined on arm64, but it is a generic memory barrier, let's
add dma_mb() into documentation and include/asm-generic/barrier.h.

Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com>
---
 Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 11 ++++++-----
 include/asm-generic/barrier.h     |  8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index b12df9137e1c..07a8b8e1b12a 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -1894,6 +1894,7 @@ There are some more advanced barrier functions:
 
  (*) dma_wmb();
  (*) dma_rmb();
+ (*) dma_mb();
 
      These are for use with consistent memory to guarantee the ordering
      of writes or reads of shared memory accessible to both the CPU and a
@@ -1925,11 +1926,11 @@ There are some more advanced barrier functions:
      The dma_rmb() allows us guarantee the device has released ownership
      before we read the data from the descriptor, and the dma_wmb() allows
      us to guarantee the data is written to the descriptor before the device
-     can see it now has ownership.  Note that, when using writel(), a prior
-     wmb() is not needed to guarantee that the cache coherent memory writes
-     have completed before writing to the MMIO region.  The cheaper
-     writel_relaxed() does not provide this guarantee and must not be used
-     here.
+     can see it now has ownership. The dma_mb() implies both a dma_rmb() and
+     a dma_wmb().  Note that, when using writel(), a prior wmb() is not needed
+     to guarantee that the cache coherent memory writes have completed before
+     writing to the MMIO region. The cheaper writel_relaxed() does not provide
+     this guarantee and must not be used here.
 
      See the subsection "Kernel I/O barrier effects" for more information on
      relaxed I/O accessors and the Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst file for
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/barrier.h b/include/asm-generic/barrier.h
index fd7e8fbaeef1..961f4d88f9ef 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/barrier.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/barrier.h
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@
 #define wmb()	do { kcsan_wmb(); __wmb(); } while (0)
 #endif
 
+#ifdef __dma_mb
+#define dma_mb()	do { kcsan_mb(); __dma_mb(); } while (0)
+#endif
+
 #ifdef __dma_rmb
 #define dma_rmb()	do { kcsan_rmb(); __dma_rmb(); } while (0)
 #endif
@@ -65,6 +69,10 @@
 #define wmb()	mb()
 #endif
 
+#ifndef dma_mb
+#define dma_mb()	mb()
+#endif
+
 #ifndef dma_rmb
 #define dma_rmb()	rmb()
 #endif
-- 
2.35.3




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