Re: [RFC] MMIO accessors & barriers documentation

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-11T21:34:34Z

On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 18:26 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Llu, 2006-09-11 am 19:59 +1000, ysgrifennodd Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
> > Ok, so we would define ordering on the first and last accesses (being
> > the first and last in ascending addresses order) and leave it free to
> > the implementation to do what it wants in between. Is that ok ?
>
> Not sure you can go that far. I'd stick to "_fromio/_toio" transfer
> blocks of data efficiently between host and bus addresses. The
> guarantees are the same as readl/writel respectively with respect to the
> start and end of the transfer.
>
> [How do you define start and end addresses with memcpy_fromio(foo, bar,
> 4) for example ]

Ok. So they behave like a writel or a readl globally respective to other
accesses but there is no guarantee in order or size of the individual
transfers making them up.

Ben