RFC on writel and writel_relaxed
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Mar 28 08:24:41 AEDT 2018
On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 09:46 -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> 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.
Yes, they should have the same semantics as writel
Cheers,
Ben.
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