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From: arnd@arndb•de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: mm: dma: Update coherent streaming apis with missing memory barrier
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:53:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201404222153.41786.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53567E7C.7020409@ti.com>

On Tuesday 22 April 2014, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 April 2014 10:08 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > It's not the nicest API ever, but that's what it is and has been, mostly
> > for compatibility with x86, where the 'mov' instruction performing the
> > store to MMIO registers implies that all writes to DMA memory are
> > visible to the device.
> > 
> This is not about writel() and  writel_relaxed(). The driver don't
> need that barrier. For example if the actual start of the DMA
> happens bit later, that doesn't matter for the driver.
> 
> DMA APIs already do barriers today for non-coherent case. We
> are not talking anything new here. Sorry but I don't see the
> connection here.

I don't think they do, nor should they. Can you tell me where
you see a barrier in dma_sync_single_for_cpu() or 
arm_dma_sync_single_for_device()? For all I can tell, they
only deal with L1 and L2 cache maintainance in arm_dma_ops.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-22 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-21 18:03 [PATCH] ARM: mm: dma: Update coherent streaming apis with missing memory barrier Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-22 10:28 ` Will Deacon
2014-04-22 13:49   ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-22 14:08     ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-04-22 14:36       ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-22 19:53         ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2014-04-22 19:58           ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-22 20:23             ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-04-22 20:30               ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-23  9:02                 ` Will Deacon
2014-04-23 16:02                   ` Catalin Marinas
2014-04-23 17:17                     ` Will Deacon
2014-04-23 18:37                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-04-23 18:58                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-04-23 19:04                           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-04-24 10:47                             ` Catalin Marinas
2014-04-24 11:15                               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-04-24 11:21                                 ` Will Deacon
2014-04-24 13:38                                   ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-24 14:09                                     ` Will Deacon
2014-04-24 14:44                                       ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-24 19:12                                         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-04-23 19:34                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2014-04-24 10:58                           ` Will Deacon
2014-04-24 12:12                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-04-24 12:37                               ` Will Deacon
2014-04-24  9:54                         ` Catalin Marinas
2014-04-24 11:13                           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-04-24  9:09                       ` Catalin Marinas
2014-04-24  9:16                         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-04-24 10:13                           ` Catalin Marinas
2014-05-02 21:33                       ` Joel Fernandes
2014-05-06 10:01                         ` Will Deacon
2014-04-22 15:07     ` Catalin Marinas
2014-04-22 15:18       ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-04-22 15:30         ` Catalin Marinas

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