Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: io: Hook up __io_par() for inX() ordering

Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-02-12T10:42:59Z

Hi Will,

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 9:34 PM Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
> Ensure that inX() provides the same ordering guarantees as readX()
> by hooking up __io_par() so that it maps directly to __iormb().
>
> Reported-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

Thanks for your patch!

> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h
> @@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ static inline u64 __raw_readq(const volatile void __iomem *addr)
> : "memory"); \
> })
>
> +#define __io_par __iormb

I think it makes sense to make the parameter passing explicit, for
documentation purposes:

#define __io_par(v) __iormb(v)

> #define __iowmb() wmb()
>
> #define mmiowb() do { } while (0)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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