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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] ARM: Use include/asm-generic/io.h
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:24:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140711162422.GF16321@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1405092672-18549-2-git-send-email-thierry.reding@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 04:31:11PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/io.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/io.h
> index a78562f21aab..ef54f5c8a7ae 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/io.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/io.h
[...]
> -#define iowrite16be(v,p) ({ __iowmb(); __raw_writew((__force __u16)cpu_to_be16(v), p); })
> -#define iowrite32be(v,p) ({ __iowmb(); __raw_writel((__force __u32)cpu_to_be32(v), p); })

Aren't you losing the barrier semantics here? The generic iowrite*be()
functions call __raw_write*() directly which don't have a barrier
(write* accessors do).

-- 
Catalin

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] ARM: Use include/asm-generic/io.h
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:24:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140711162422.GF16321@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1405092672-18549-2-git-send-email-thierry.reding@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 04:31:11PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/io.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/io.h
> index a78562f21aab..ef54f5c8a7ae 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/io.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/io.h
[...]
> -#define iowrite16be(v,p) ({ __iowmb(); __raw_writew((__force __u16)cpu_to_be16(v), p); })
> -#define iowrite32be(v,p) ({ __iowmb(); __raw_writel((__force __u32)cpu_to_be32(v), p); })

Aren't you losing the barrier semantics here? The generic iowrite*be()
functions call __raw_write*() directly which don't have a barrier
(write* accessors do).

-- 
Catalin

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-11 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-11 15:31 [PATCH v2 1/3] asm-generic/io.h: Implement generic {read,write}s*() Thierry Reding
2014-07-11 15:31 ` Thierry Reding
2014-07-11 15:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] ARM: Use include/asm-generic/io.h Thierry Reding
2014-07-11 15:31   ` Thierry Reding
2014-07-11 16:24   ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2014-07-11 16:24     ` Catalin Marinas
2014-07-12 12:27     ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-12 12:27       ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-12 14:18       ` Catalin Marinas
2014-07-12 14:18         ` Catalin Marinas
2014-07-11 15:31 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] arm64: " Thierry Reding
2014-07-11 15:31   ` Thierry Reding
2014-07-11 16:18 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] asm-generic/io.h: Implement generic {read,write}s*() Catalin Marinas
2014-07-11 16:18   ` Catalin Marinas
2014-07-11 21:59 ` Stephen Boyd
2014-07-11 21:59   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] asm-generic/io.h: Implement generic {read, write}s*() Stephen Boyd
2014-07-14  9:10   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] asm-generic/io.h: Implement generic {read,write}s*() Thierry Reding
2014-07-14  9:10     ` Thierry Reding
2014-07-14 17:23     ` Stephen Boyd
2014-07-14 17:23       ` [PATCH v2 1/3] asm-generic/io.h: Implement generic {read, write}s*() Stephen Boyd

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