From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752183AbeCTCu0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:50:26 -0400 Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.29.96]:35142 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751857AbeCTCuV (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:50:21 -0400 DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 smtp.codeaurora.org 0165A60FEE Authentication-Results: pdx-caf-mail.web.codeaurora.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=codeaurora.org Authentication-Results: pdx-caf-mail.web.codeaurora.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=okaya@codeaurora.org From: Sinan Kaya To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, timur@codeaurora.org, sulrich@codeaurora.org Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Sinan Kaya , Don Brace , "James E.J. Bottomley" , "Martin K. Petersen" , esc.storagedev@microsemi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v4 1/7] scsi: hpsa: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:50:01 -0400 Message-Id: <1521514207-10695-2-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1521514207-10695-1-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org> References: <1521514207-10695-1-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Code includes wmb() followed by writel(). writel() already has a barrier on some architectures like arm64. This ends up CPU observing two barriers back to back before executing the register write. Since code already has an explicit barrier call, changing writel() to writel_relaxed(). Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya --- drivers/scsi/hpsa.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.h b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.h index 018f980..c7d7e6a 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.h +++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.h @@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ static unsigned long SA5_ioaccel_mode1_completed(struct ctlr_info *h, u8 q) * but with current driver design this is easiest. */ wmb(); - writel((q << 24) | rq->current_entry, h->vaddr + + writel_relaxed((q << 24) | rq->current_entry, h->vaddr + IOACCEL_MODE1_CONSUMER_INDEX); atomic_dec(&h->commands_outstanding); } -- 2.7.4