Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] PCI: designware: add memory barrier after enabling region

[Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:28:59AM +0200, Stanimir Varbanov wrote:
> Add 'write memory' barrier after enable region in PCIE_ATU_CR2
> register. The barrier is needed to ensure that the region enable
> request has been reached it's destination at time when we
> read/write to PCI configuration space.
> 
> Without this barrier PCI device enumeration during kernel boot
> is not reliable, and reading configuration space for particular
> PCI device on the bus returns zero aka no device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.varbanov@linaro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c |    5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c b/drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c
> index 02a7452bdf23..e15a2ae1583f 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/host/pcie-designware.c
> @@ -164,6 +164,11 @@ static void dw_pcie_prog_outbound_atu(struct pcie_port *pp, int index,
>  	dw_pcie_writel_rc(pp, upper_32_bits(pci_addr), PCIE_ATU_UPPER_TARGET);
>  	dw_pcie_writel_rc(pp, type, PCIE_ATU_CR1);
>  	dw_pcie_writel_rc(pp, PCIE_ATU_ENABLE, PCIE_ATU_CR2);
> +	/*
> +	 * ensure that the ATU enable has been happaned before accessing
> +	 * pci configuration/io spaces through dw_pcie_cfg_[read|write].
> +	 */
> +	smp_wmb();

So, why is this a SMP barrier?

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