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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Document Linux's memory barriers
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On Maw, 2006-03-07 at 19:10 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > You must have a strange kernel Andi. Mine marks them as volatile
> > unsigned char * references.
>
> Well, that and the fact that IO memory should be mapped as uncacheable
> in the MTRRs should ensure that readl and writel won't be reordered on
> i386 and x86_64.. except in the case where CONFIG_UNORDERED_IO is
> enabled on x86_64 which can reorder writes since it uses nontemporal
> stores..

You need both

real/writel need the volatile to stop gcc removing/reordering the
accesses at compiler level, and the mtrr/pci bridge stuff then deals
with bus level ordering for that CPU.

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