[PATCH] ath10k: Replace ioread with wmb for data sync

[Johannes Berg]

On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 21:39 -0800, Peter Oh wrote:

> > Ok, sure, but I/O ordering two different writes, and ensuring device
> > has seen a posted write, are related but different things, no?
> yes, they are different and wmb guarantees both.

No, wmb() doesn't. I'd be very surprised if it had any side effect on
the PCI bus even on ARM. Read Documentation/memory-barriers.txt.

And to understand (PCI) posted writes, wikipedia helps:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posted_write

johannes