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SubjectRe: [PATCH] NVMe: Fix compilation on architecturs without readq/writeq
>   u64 val;
> val = readl(addr);
> val |= readl(addr+4) << 32;
>
> is well-defined and must read the low word first - both at the C level
> *and* at the CPU level. Anything else would be a bug in the
> architecture "readl()" implementation or the hardware.

That doesn't make the access atomic to hardware however as a true 64bit
readq/writeq would be ?

It seems to me the two are not quite the same semantically


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