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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ARM: Gemini: Add support for PCI BUS
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On Monday 29 November 2010, Paulius Zaleckas wrote:
> > The I/O ordering is probably not what you think it is.
> > There is no ordering guarantee between __raw_writel and
> > spin_lock/spin_unlock, so you really should be using
> > readl/writel.
>
> No he really should NOT use readl/writel. The ONLY difference
> between readl/writel and __raw_readl/__raw_writel is endianess
> conversion. __raw_*l is not doing it. Which to use depend only
> on HW.

There are many differences between readl and __raw_readl, including

* __raw_readl does not have barriers and does not serialize with
spinlocks, so it breaks on out-of-order CPUs.
* __raw_readl does not have a specific endianess, while readl is
fixed little-endian, just as the hardware is in this case.
The endian-conversion is a NOP on little-endian ARM, but required
if you actually run on a big-endian ARM (you don't).
* __raw_readl may not be atomic, gcc is free to split the access
into byte wise reads (it normally does not, unless you mark
the pointer __attribute__((packed))).

In essence, it is almost never a good idea to use __raw_readl, and
the double underscores should tell you so.

Arnd


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