From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com (Ivan Khoronzhuk) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 18:54:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH v4 1/3] clocksource: timer-keystone: introduce clocksource driver for Keystone In-Reply-To: References: <1391513453-21140-1-git-send-email-ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com> <1391513453-21140-2-git-send-email-ivan.khoronzhuk@ti.com> Message-ID: <52F11B5C.40407@ti.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org It was so in v1. But it was decided to use explicit memory barriers, because we're always sure the memory barriers are there and that they're properly documented. Also in this case I don't need to add keystone readl/writel relaxed function variants and to use mixed calls of writel/writel_relaxed functions. See: http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg294941.html On 02/04/2014 06:24 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 4 Feb 2014, Ivan Khoronzhuk wrote: >> + keystone_timer_writel(off, TCR); >> + /* here we have to be sure the timer has been disabled */ >> + wmb(); > We have explicit writew_relaxed and writew. Why open coding the > barriers? > > Thanks, > > tglx -- Regards, Ivan Khoronzhuk