[PATCH] linux-next remove wmb() from ide-dma-sff.c and scc_pata.c

[Atsushi Nemoto]

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:51:53 +0200 (CEST), Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven at sonycom.com> wrote:
> > Followup to "[PATCH 03/10] ide: destroy DMA mappings after ending DMA"
> > email on March 14th:
> >     http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/14/17
> > 
> > No maintainer is listed for "Toshiba CELL Reference Set IDE" (BLK_DEV_CELLEB)
> > or tx4939ide.c in MAINTAINERS. I've CC'd "Ishizaki Kou" @Toshiba (Maintainer for
> > "Spidernet Network Driver for CELL") and linuxppc-dev list in the hope
> > someone else
> > would know or would be able to ACK this patch.
> 
> tx49xx is MIPS, for Nemoto-san.
> 
> > This patch:
> > o replaces "mask" variable in ide_dma_end() with #define.
> > o removes use of wmb() in ide-dma-sff.c and scc_pata.c.
> > o is not tested - I don't have (or want) the HW.
> > 
> > I did NOT remove wmb() use in tx4939ide.c. tx4939ide.c __raw_writeb()
> > for MMIO transactions. __raw_writeb() does NOT guarantee memory
> > transaction ordering.

The wmb() in tx4939ide.c was just copied from ide_dma_end().  On this
MIPS core memory operations are strictly ordered so that the wmb() can
be removed.

And on MIPS __raw_writeb() and writeb() do same thing except for
endian conversion.

I will send a patch just for tx4939ide.c.  Thank you for suggestion.

> > tx4939ide also uses mmiowb(). AFAIK, mmiowb() only has an effect on
> > SGI IA64 NUMA machines. I'm not going to guess how this driver might work.

On MIPS mmiowb() can be (ab)used to flush write buffer.  Please do not
drop this mmiowb().

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Atsushi Nemoto