linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 07/21] x86/io: Remove useless definition of mmiowb()

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1904051613500.1802@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:   Fri, 5 Apr 2019 16:14:23 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/21] x86/io: Remove useless definition of mmiowb()

On Fri, 5 Apr 2019, Will Deacon wrote:

> x86 maps mmiowb() to barrier(), but this is superfluous because a
> compiler barrier is already implied by spin_unlock(). Since x86 also
> includes asm-generic/io.h in its asm/io.h file, we can remove the

s/we can//

> definition entirely and pick up the dummy definition from core code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>