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On Sat, 2014-06-21 at 00:14 +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:

> We can still use __raw_writel&co, would that be ok?

No unless you understand precisely what kind of memory barriers each
platform require for these.

Cheers,
Ben.