Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 00/18] Cross-architecture definitions of relaxed MMIO accessors | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Wed, 28 May 2014 06:23:30 +1000 |
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On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 20:34 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Do you mean the io{read,write} functions? Funnily enough, they're already > relaxed on ARM if you go by the semantics I've proposed. That implies we at > least need some Documentation to that effect... > > What do you do on ppc?
They are not supposed to be relaxed. If they are, you probably have a whole lot of busted drivers :-)
They have the same semantics as readl/writel for memory and as inb/outb for IO space, they just allow to hide the "type" (memory vs. IO) from most of the driver code.
We probably need to create a set of _relaxed variants.
Cheers, Ben.
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