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Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 22:46:51 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: MMIO and gcc re-ordering issue
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On Tue, 27 May 2008 15:53:28 -0600
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:

> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:38:22PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > re-ordering, even though I doubt it will be visible in practice. So if you 
> > > use the "__" versions, you'd better have barriers even on x86!
> > 
> > Are we also going to have __ioread*/__iowrite* ?
> 
> Didn't we already define ioread*() to have loose semantics?

The ATA layer doesn't think so.

Alan