RFC on writel and writel_relaxed

[Sinan Kaya]

On 3/22/2018 8:52 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>>> No, it's not sufficient.
> Just to clarify ... barrier() is just a compiler barrier, it means the
> compiler will generate things in the order they are written. This isn't
> sufficient on archs with an OO memory model, where an actual memory
> barrier instruction needs to be emited.

Surprisingly, ARM64 GCC compiler generates a write barrier as
opposed to preventing code reordering.

I was curious if this is an ARM only thing or not. 

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Sinan Kaya
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