linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 3/5] x86: tweak the comment about use of wmb for IO

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Message-ID: <1453904765-11073-4-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:10:28 +0200
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	virtualization <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 3/5] x86: tweak the comment about use of wmb for IO

On x86, we *do* still use the non-nop rmb/wmb for IO barriers, but even
that is generally questionable.

Leave them around as historial unless somebody can point to a case where
they care about the performance, but tweak the comment so people
don't think they are strictly required in all cases.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
index a291745..bfb28ca 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 /*
  * Force strict CPU ordering.
- * And yes, this is required on UP too when we're talking
+ * And yes, this might be required on UP too when we're talking
  * to devices.
  */
 
-- 
MST