Re: [PATCH v2] i2c: designware: Fix corrupted memory seen in the ISR

[Wolfram Sang]

> OK, since it ends up with the *_relaxed() accessors, there are no
> barriers here. I wonder whether the regmap API should have both standard
> and relaxed variants. If a regmap driver does not populate the
> .reg_write_relaxed etc. members, a regmap_write_relaxed() would just
> fall back to regmap_write().
> 
> We went through similar discussions many years ago around the I/O
> accessors and decided to add the barriers to readl/writel() even if they
> become more expensive, correctness should be first. The relaxed variants
> were added as optimisations if specific memory ordering was not
> required. I think the regmap API should follow the same semantics, go
> for correctness first as you can't tell what the side-effect of a
> regmap_write() is (e.g. kicking off DMA or causing an interrupt on
> another CPU).

Again, I am all with Catalin here. Safety first, optimizations a la
*_relaxed should be opt-in.

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