Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Date | Mon, 6 Dec 2021 16:15:44 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCHv5 1/4] arm64: io: Use asm-generic high level MMIO accessors |
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On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 2:52 PM Sai Prakash Ranjan <quic_saipraka@quicinc.com> wrote: > > Sorry, what I meant was the literal name of these macros, i.e., > __iormb() has more explicit naming as > IO read memory barrier and __io_ar() is IO after read? So doesn't it > make more sense that __iormb() > should be the primary definition which is already the case and ar/bw > should be based on them.
My reasoning was that we should ideally only have one set, and that __io_ar()/__io_bw() are the ones used in architecture-independent code, so I'd rather use those and deprecate the arm64 specific ones, eventually moving all the arm64 specific code to use those directly where needed.
Arnd
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