From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: MMIO and gcc re-ordering issue Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 07:10:21 +1000 Message-ID: <1211922621.3286.80.camel@pasglop> References: <1211852026.3286.36.camel@pasglop> <20080526.184047.88207142.davem@davemloft.net> <1211854540.3286.42.camel@pasglop> <20080526.192812.184590464.davem@davemloft.net> <1211859542.3286.46.camel@pasglop> Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:35080 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756590AbYE0VK6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2008 17:10:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Miller , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, scottwood@freescale.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tpiepho@freescale.com On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 08:35 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 27 May 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Yes. As it is today, tg3 for example is potentially broken on all archs > > with newer gcc unless we either add "memory" clobber to readl/writel or > > stick some wmb's in there (just a random driver I picked). > > > > So Linus, what is your take on that matter ? > > Let's just serialize the damn things, and add a memory clobber to them. > > Expecting people to fix up all drivers is simply not going to happen. And > serializing things shouldn't be *that* expensive. People who cannot take > the expense can continue to use the magic __raw_writel() etc stuff. Ok. Do we also remove wmb/rmb/... from drivers then ? :-) I think ia64 would need to be fixed to make their writel serializing... Regarding __raw_* their semantics are dodgy ... we might want to provide something better but it's a different subject. Cheers, Ben.