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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Shanker Donthineni <sdonthineni@nvidia.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Vikram Sethi <vsethi@nvidia.com>,
	Jason Sequeira <jsequeira@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] arm64: errata: Workaround NVIDIA Olympus device store/load ordering erratum
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:48:25 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260612124825.GF1962447@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <851c4107-3f6d-46f3-b659-212ce4f69e6e@nvidia.com>

On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 08:13:48PM -0500, Shanker Donthineni wrote:

> For the scalar MMIO helpers, the workaround promotes the raw writes to
> store-release on affected CPUs as v1/v2 shown below. For the memcpy-toIO
> helpers, could you please clarify the specific reason for adding a dmb despite
> the documented no-ordering contract? Is the concern that some drivers may
> be relying on ordering across memcpy_toio_*() today even though the API
> does not guarantee it, and that we should cover those cases defensively?

I think given how arm implements them today the iocopy's are actually
the _relaxed variations.. I wonder if this matters to any user?

Jason

      reply	other threads:[~2026-06-12 12:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-10 16:48 [PATCH v3] arm64: errata: Workaround NVIDIA Olympus device store/load ordering erratum Shanker Donthineni
2026-06-11 13:34 ` Will Deacon
2026-06-11 14:08   ` Shanker Donthineni
2026-06-11 15:08   ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-06-11 16:00     ` Shanker Donthineni
2026-06-11 17:49   ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]   ` <IA1PR12MB6089049028A73A2078FC6831C71B2@IA1PR12MB6089.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>
2026-06-12  1:13     ` Shanker Donthineni
2026-06-12 12:48       ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]

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