[patch 1/2] powerpc: rmb fix

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Fri May 23 14:53:21 EST 2008


Nick Piggin writes:

> There don't seem to actually be read*_relaxed calls that also use rmb
> in the same file (although there is no reason why they might not appear).
> But I must be thinking of are the raw_read accessors. They aren't ordered
> on powerpc, and a few drivers appear to hope rmb() will order them.

Which drivers?

Paul.



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