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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>,
	"ath10k@lists.infradead.org" <ath10k@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Missing memory barriers
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:48:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738j4ftep.fsf_-_@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHqTa-2kUJ1hrc8c2Kqy+cGexPJdisTMuUTH8WQ5KqV9qURwMw@mail.gmail.com> (Avery Pennarun's message of "Sun, 9 Feb 2014 03:00:45 -0500")

Hi Avery,

starting a new thread about memory barriers:

Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> - there are definitely some missing memory barriers in here; in a few
> cases you can clearly see a write getting done before the read that
> came before it.  Looking at the definitions for iowrite32 and
> ioread32, and for rmb() and wmb(), we can see that the use of rmb()
> and wmb() do not work properly (at least on ARM) when you care about
> the ordering between reads and writes.  However, I don't think this
> actually causes the problem.

Can you tell more about this, please? Did you find out where we are
actually doing it wrong?

-- 
Kalle Valo

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-27 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-28 17:18 ath10k driver crashes whenever firmware crashes on ARM SoC Avery Pennarun
2014-01-28 18:20 ` Ben Greear
2014-01-28 18:34   ` Avery Pennarun
2014-01-28 19:01     ` Ben Greear
2014-01-28 19:11       ` Avery Pennarun
2014-01-28 20:10     ` Janusz Dziedzic
2014-01-28 20:51       ` Avery Pennarun
2014-01-29 16:44     ` Kalle Valo
     [not found] ` <CAJ-VmokorbJ2iU4rGNYdRj+A22NR9cV-5h-tDN0pD2FCurZDpA@mail.gmail.com>
2014-01-28 20:55   ` Avery Pennarun
2014-01-29 16:41 ` Kalle Valo
2014-01-29 18:44   ` Adrian Chadd
2014-01-30  2:41     ` Avery Pennarun
2014-02-09  8:00       ` Avery Pennarun
2014-02-27 15:48         ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2014-02-28  6:10           ` Missing memory barriers Avery Pennarun
2014-03-06 13:34             ` Kalle Valo
2014-03-11  7:33         ` ath10k driver crashes whenever firmware crashes on ARM SoC Kalle Valo
2014-03-11  7:40           ` Avery Pennarun
2014-03-11  7:52             ` Adrian Chadd
2014-03-11  7:59               ` Avery Pennarun
2014-03-11  8:13               ` Kalle Valo
2014-03-11  8:37                 ` Michal Kazior
2014-03-11  8:10             ` Kalle Valo
2014-03-11 19:01           ` Ben Greear
2014-03-12  8:22             ` Kalle Valo
2014-03-12 16:01               ` Ben Greear
2014-03-12 23:28                 ` Avery Pennarun
2014-03-13  5:09                   ` Kalle Valo
2014-03-13 17:34                     ` Adrian Chadd
2014-03-13 17:39                       ` Kalle Valo
2014-03-13 17:42                       ` Ben Greear
2014-03-14  6:26                         ` Kalle Valo

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