Re: [PATCH net-next 2/4] net: stmmac: use correct barrier between coherent memory and MMIO

[David Miller]

From: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 00:28:53 +0100

> However, the last write we do is "DMA start transmission",
> this is a register in the IP, i.e. it is a write to the cache
> incoherent MMIO region (rather than a write to cache coherent memory).
> To ensure that all writes to cache coherent memory have
> completed before we start the DMA, we have to use the barrier
> wmb() (which performs a more extensive flush compared to
> dma_wmb()).

The is an implicit memory barrier between physical memory writes
and those to MMIO register space.

So as long as you place the dma_wmb() to ensure the correct
ordering within the descriptor words, you need nothing else
after the last descriptor word write.