Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Fix IO access in rivafb

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 17:06 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> 
> > 
> > How about this patch?  This is almost the original macro in riva_hw.h,
> > with the __force annotation.
> 
> I don't like it neither. It lacks barriers. the rivafb driver
> notoriously lacks barriers, except in a few places where it was so bad
> that it actually broke all the time, where we added some. This
> originates from the X "nv" driver written by Mark Vojkovich who didn't
> want to hear about barriers for perfs reasons I think.

Could this be the reason why in 2.6.7 I get solid lockups when 
switching to nv-driven X and rivafb-driven console? Is there 
something I could test to see if this is the reason?

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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