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Message-ID: <475E7DC2.4060509@davidnewall.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:38:34 +1030
From: David Newall <david@...idnewall.com>
To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl>
CC: Paul Rolland <rol@...917.net>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"David P. Reed" <dpreed@...d.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, rol@...be.net
Subject: Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64
with MCP51 laptops
Rene Herman wrote:
> On 11-12-07 08:40, Paul Rolland wrote:
>
>> Well, if the delay is so much unspecified, what about _reading_ port
>> 0x80 ?
>> Will the delay be shorter ?
>
> The delay is completely and fully specified in terms of the ISA/LPC clock
That would be the delay on the i386 (sic) architecture. In general,
though, the delay is:
"Some devices require that accesses to their ports are slowed down.
This functionality is provided by appending a _p to the end of the
function."
-- Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl
(I've not seen any other formal definition.)
Most architectures (Alpha, Arm, Arm2, Blackfin, FRV, h8300, IA64,
PA-RISC, PowerPC, Sparc, Sparc64, V850 and Xtensa) do no pause. M68k
does no pause except in one configuration, when it's the same as i386.
On m32r it's a push and a pop. On SuperH it's similar to i386, only
using 16-bit input. X86-64 is the same as i386!
Thinking that _p gives a pause is perhaps too PC-centric. Why, if a
delay is needed, wouldn't you use a real delay; one that says how long
it should be?
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