Re: [PATCH] alpha: io: reorder barriers to guarantee writeX() and iowriteX() ordering

From: Matt Turner
Date: Thu Apr 05 2018 - 22:48:46 EST


On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 6:35 PM, Sinan Kaya <okaya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 4/2/2018 1:48 PM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
>> memory-barriers.txt has been updated with the following requirement.
>>
>> "When using writel(), a prior wmb() is not needed to guarantee that the
>> cache coherent memory writes have completed before writing to the MMIO
>> region."
>>
>> Current writeX() and iowriteX() implementations on alpha are not
>> satisfying this requirement as the barrier is after the register write.
>>
>> Move mb() in writeX() and iowriteX() functions to guarantee that HW
>> observes memory changes before performing register operations.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h | 14 +++++++-------
>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h b/arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h
>> index d123ff9..4c533fc 100644
>> --- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h
>> +++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h
>> @@ -341,14 +341,14 @@ extern inline unsigned int ioread16(void __iomem *addr)
>>
>> extern inline void iowrite8(u8 b, void __iomem *addr)
>> {
>> - IO_CONCAT(__IO_PREFIX,iowrite8)(b, addr);
>> mb();
>> + IO_CONCAT(__IO_PREFIX, iowrite8)(b, addr);
>> }
>>
>> extern inline void iowrite16(u16 b, void __iomem *addr)
>> {
>> - IO_CONCAT(__IO_PREFIX,iowrite16)(b, addr);
>> mb();
>> + IO_CONCAT(__IO_PREFIX, iowrite16)(b, addr);
>> }
>>
>> extern inline u8 inb(unsigned long port)
>> @@ -382,8 +382,8 @@ extern inline unsigned int ioread32(void __iomem *addr)
>>
>> extern inline void iowrite32(u32 b, void __iomem *addr)
>> {
>> - IO_CONCAT(__IO_PREFIX,iowrite32)(b, addr);
>> mb();
>> + IO_CONCAT(__IO_PREFIX, iowrite32)(b, addr);
>> }
>>
>> extern inline u32 inl(unsigned long port)
>> @@ -434,14 +434,14 @@ extern inline u16 readw(const volatile void __iomem *addr)
>>
>> extern inline void writeb(u8 b, volatile void __iomem *addr)
>> {
>> - __raw_writeb(b, addr);
>> mb();
>> + __raw_writeb(b, addr);
>> }
>>
>> extern inline void writew(u16 b, volatile void __iomem *addr)
>> {
>> - __raw_writew(b, addr);
>> mb();
>> + __raw_writew(b, addr);
>> }
>> #endif
>>
>> @@ -482,14 +482,14 @@ extern inline u64 readq(const volatile void __iomem *addr)
>>
>> extern inline void writel(u32 b, volatile void __iomem *addr)
>> {
>> - __raw_writel(b, addr);
>> mb();
>> + __raw_writel(b, addr);
>> }
>>
>> extern inline void writeq(u64 b, volatile void __iomem *addr)
>> {
>> - __raw_writeq(b, addr);
>> mb();
>> + __raw_writeq(b, addr);
>> }
>> #endif
>>
>>
>
>
> Can we get these merged to 4.17?
>
> There was a consensus to fix the architectures having API violation issues.
> https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg225971.html

I expect so. Sorry I haven't had time to collect patches yet. I think
tomorrow or the next day I will.
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