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From: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
To: <elver@google.com>, <catalin.marinas@arm.com>, <will@kernel.org>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>, Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] Documentation/barriers: Add memory barrier dma_mb()
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 11:15:47 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220520031548.175582-2-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220520031548.175582-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>

The memory barrier dma_mb() is introduced by commit a76a37777f2c
("iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Ensure queue is read after updating prod pointer"),
which is used to ensure that prior (both reads and writes) accesses to
memory by a CPU are ordered w.r.t. a subsequent MMIO write.

Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
---
 Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index b12df9137e1c..1eabcc0e4eca 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -1894,10 +1894,13 @@ There are some more advanced barrier functions:
 
  (*) dma_wmb();
  (*) dma_rmb();
+ (*) dma_mb();
 
      These are for use with consistent memory to guarantee the ordering
      of writes or reads of shared memory accessible to both the CPU and a
-     DMA capable device.
+     DMA capable device, in the case of ensure the prior (both reads and
+     writes) accesses to memory by a CPU are ordered w.r.t. a subsequent
+     MMIO write, dma_mb().
 
      For example, consider a device driver that shares memory with a device
      and uses a descriptor status value to indicate if the descriptor belongs
-- 
2.35.3


  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-20  3:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-20  3:15 [PATCH v2 0/2] arm64: Fix kcsan test_barrier fail and panic Kefeng Wang
2022-05-20  3:15 ` Kefeng Wang [this message]
2022-05-20 10:08   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Documentation/barriers: Add memory barrier dma_mb() Marco Elver
2022-05-20 11:14     ` Kefeng Wang
2022-05-20  3:15 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] arm64: kcsan: Support detecting more missing memory barriers Kefeng Wang
2022-05-20 10:14   ` Marco Elver

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