Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] iommu/mediatek: Use writel for TLB range invalidation

[Yong Wu]

On Fri, 2019-10-11 at 17:29 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 09:19:02PM +0800, Yong Wu wrote:
> > Use writel for the register F_MMU_INV_RANGE which is for triggering the
> > HW work. We expect all the setting(iova_start/iova_end...) have already
> > been finished before F_MMU_INV_RANGE.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Anan.Sun <anan.sun@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Yong Wu <yong.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > This is a improvement rather than fixing a issue.
> > ---
> >  drivers/iommu/mtk_iommu.c | 3 +--
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/iommu/mtk_iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/mtk_iommu.c
> > index 24a13a6..607f92c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/iommu/mtk_iommu.c
> > +++ b/drivers/iommu/mtk_iommu.c
> > @@ -187,8 +187,7 @@ static void mtk_iommu_tlb_add_flush(unsigned long iova, size_t size,
> >  		writel_relaxed(iova, data->base + REG_MMU_INVLD_START_A);
> >  		writel_relaxed(iova + size - 1,
> >  			       data->base + REG_MMU_INVLD_END_A);
> > -		writel_relaxed(F_MMU_INV_RANGE,
> > -			       data->base + REG_MMU_INVALIDATE);
> > +		writel(F_MMU_INV_RANGE, data->base + REG_MMU_INVALIDATE);
> 
> I don't understand this change.
> 
> Why is it an "improvement" and which accesses are you ordering with the
> writel?

The register(F_MMU_INV_RANGE) will trigger HW to begin flush range. HW
expect the other register iova_start/end/flush_type always is ready
before trigger. thus I'd like use writel to guarantee the previous
register has been finished.

I didn't see the writel_relaxed cause some error in practice, we only
think writel is necessary here in theory. so call it "improvement".

> 
> Will