linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Improve (in|out)

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Date:	Tue, 20 May 2008 17:35:56 -0500
From:	Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	benh@...nel.crashing.org, Trent Piepho <tpiepho@...escale.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Improve (in|out)_beXX() asm code

Alan Cox wrote:
>> It looks like we rely on -fno-strict-aliasing to prevent reordering 
>> ordinary memory accesses (such as to DMA descriptors) past the I/O 
> 
> DMA descriptors in main memory are dependant on cache behaviour anyway
> and the dma_* operators should be the ones enforcing the needed behaviour.

What about memory obtained from dma_alloc_coherent()?  We still need a 
sync and a compiler barrier.  The current I/O accessors have the former, 
but not the latter.

-Scott
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