Re: [PATCH v4 1/7] scsi: hpsa: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs

[Laurence Oberman]

On Mon, 2018-03-19 at 22:50 -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> Code includes wmb() followed by writel(). writel() already has a
> barrier on some architectures like arm64.
> 
> This ends up CPU observing two barriers back to back before executing
> the register write.
> 
> Since code already has an explicit barrier call, changing writel() to
> writel_relaxed().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Âdrivers/scsi/hpsa.h | 2 +-
> Â1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.h b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.h
> index 018f980..c7d7e6a 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.h
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.h
> @@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ static unsigned long
> SA5_ioaccel_mode1_completed(struct ctlr_info *h, u8 q)
> Â		Â* but with current driver design this is easiest.
> Â		Â*/
> Â		wmb();
> -		writel((q << 24) | rq->current_entry, h->vaddr +
> +		writel_relaxed((q << 24) | rq->current_entry, h-
> >vaddr +
> Â				IOACCEL_MODE1_CONSUMER_INDEX);
> Â		atomic_dec(&h->commands_outstanding);
> Â	}

This looks like it would work for the x86_64 and arm because of how its
defined architecture specific for the x86_64 and the arm64

I guess its up to Don and the driver folks and if its worth the change.
I am generally not a fan of messing with these barrier things though.

Reviewed-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@xxxxxxxxxx>