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SubjectWrite to memory-mapped register has actually reached the device
Hello everyone,

I'm using an ARMv7 platform (Cortex A9).

The hardware designer said something that confused me: he said
that when a driver writes to a device memory-mapped register,
there is no way to "know" when the write has actually reached
the device, other than to read the value back.

I had been using this kind of code:

static void __iomem *device_base;

device_base = ioremap(DEVICE_ADDR, RANGE);
writel_relaxed(val, device_base + N);


The situation where he said this would bite me is:

write to a device register to clear an interrupt notification
unmask interrupts

The interrupt might fire because the interrupt bit has
not been cleared yet. Does that make any sense?

Should I use writel instead of writel_relaxed in that
situation? Do I really have to read-after-write?

Regards.


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