On Wed 2018-03-07 12:42:49, David Miller wrote:
> From: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cas...@axis.com>
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 18:21:57 +0100
>
> > Considering this, you can drop/revert:
> > 95eb930a40a0 ("net: stmmac: use correct barrier between coherent memory and
> > MMIO")
> > or perhaps you want me to send a revert?
>
> You must submit explicit patches to do a revert or any other change.
>
> > After reverting 95eb930a40a0, we will still have a dma_wmb() _after_ the
> > last descriptor word write. You just explained that nothing else is needed
> > after the last descriptor word write, so I actually think that this last
> > barrier is superfluous.
>
> You don't need one after the last descriptor write.
>
> Look, you're only concerned with ordering within the descriptor writes.
>
> So it's only about:
>
> desc->a = x;
>
> /* Write to 'a' must be visible to the hardware before 'b'. */
> dma_wmb();
> desc->b = y;
>
> writel();
>
> That's all that you need.We may need to fix the docs then, there's wmb() there in the docs: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt?h=v4.16-rc1#n1913 Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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