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SubjectRe: MMIO and gcc re-ordering issue
On Fri, 30 May 2008 11:13:23 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> > Currently, this is the only interface I know that can do native-endian
> > accesses, so if you take it away, I'm gonna need an alternative
> > interface that doesn't do byteswapping.
>
> Are you aware that these also don't provide any ordering guarantee ?

Yes, but I am not aware of any alternative.

I think the drivers I've written have the necessary barriers (or dma
ops with implicit barriers) that they don't actually depend on any
DMA vs. MMIO ordering guarantees. I hope MMIO vs. MMIO ordering is
guaranteed though?

Haavard


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