RFC on writel and writel_relaxed

Sinan Kaya okaya at codeaurora.org
Wed Mar 28 00:46:51 AEDT 2018


On 3/27/2018 7:02 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> -     See Documentation/DMA-API.txt for more information on consistent memory.
> +     can see it now has ownership.  Note that, when using writel(), a prior
> +     wmb() is not needed to guarantee that the cache coherent memory writes
> +     have completed before writing to the MMIO region.  The cheaper
> +     writel_relaxed() does not provide this guarantee and must not be used
> +     here.

Can we say the same thing for iowrite32() and iowrite32be(). I also see wmb()
in front of these.

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