[PATCH v4 1/7] scsi: hpsa: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs

Sinan Kaya okaya at codeaurora.org
Mon Mar 19 19:50:01 PDT 2018


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/scsi/hpsa.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.h b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.h
index 018f980..c7d7e6a 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.h
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ static unsigned long SA5_ioaccel_mode1_completed(struct ctlr_info *h, u8 q)
 		 * but with current driver design this is easiest.
 		 */
 		wmb();
-		writel((q << 24) | rq->current_entry, h->vaddr +
+		writel_relaxed((q << 24) | rq->current_entry, h->vaddr +
 				IOACCEL_MODE1_CONSUMER_INDEX);
 		atomic_dec(&h->commands_outstanding);
 	}
-- 
2.7.4




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