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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 00/17] Cross-architecture definitions of relaxed MMIO accessors
Hi Arnd,

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 02:15:10PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 September 2014 18:17:19 Will Deacon wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > This is version three of the series I've originally posted here:
> >
> > v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/17/269
> > v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/22/468
> >
> > This is basically just a rebase on top of 3.17-rc6, minus the alpha patch
> > (which was merged into mainline).
> >
> > I looked at reworking the non-relaxed accessors to imply mmiowb, but it
> > quickly got messy as some architectures (e.g. mips) deliberately keep
> > mmiowb and readX/writeX separate whilst others (e.g. powerpc) don't trust
> > drivers to get mmiowb correct, so add barriers to both. Given that
> > arm/arm64/x86 don't care about mmiowb, I've left that as an exercise for
> > an architecture that does care.
> >
> > In order to get this lot merged, we probably want to merge the asm-generic
> > patch (1/17) first, so Acks would be much appreciated on the architecture
> > bits.
> >
> > As before, I've included the original cover letter below, as that describes
> > what I'm trying to do in more detail.
> >
>
> I've now applied the parts of your series that are required to have
> every architecture provide all the 'relaxed' accessors to the
> asm-generic tree, on top of Thierry's series.

Since these didn't make it for 3.18, would you like me to repost the series,
or do you already have a branch suitable for 3.19?

Cheers,

Will


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