From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Do cpu-endian MMIO accessors exist?
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:05:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907220005.27583.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A663987.4040500@gmail.com>
On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 07/21/2009 11:15 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > __raw_readl is not a replacement for real accessors like
> > ioread32 or in_be32, because it does not synchronize with the
> > instruction stream.
>
> Aha, I see now. I guess it's a bug that ioread/write* on sh are not with
> barriers?
That depends on how that architecture defines its bus interface.
On many simple architectures, you do not need any synchronization
operations.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-21 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-21 20:42 Do cpu-endian MMIO accessors exist? Pekka Paalanen
2009-07-21 20:59 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-07-21 21:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-07-21 21:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-21 22:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-07-22 17:11 ` Pekka Paalanen
2009-07-22 21:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-07-23 16:23 ` Pekka Paalanen
2009-07-22 21:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-07-21 21:56 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-07-21 22:05 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2009-07-22 7:24 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-07-22 8:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-07-22 8:43 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-22 13:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-07-27 5:00 ` Paul Mundt
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