linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 00/11] scsi: ufs: Remove overzealous memory barriers

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Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 21:09:06 -0400
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@...hat.com>
Cc: Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>, Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
        Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>,
        Manivannan Sadhasivam
 <mani@...nel.org>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin
 K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke
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        Alim Akhtar
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        Bart Van
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        Anjana
 Hari <quic_ahari@...cinc.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Manivannan Sadhasivam
 <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/11] scsi: ufs: Remove overzealous memory barriers


Andrew,

> Please review with care as I'm not all that confident in this subject.
> UFS has a lot of mb() variants used, most with comments saying "ensure
> this takes effect before continuing". mb()'s aren't really the way to
> guarantee that, a read back is the best method.

Applied to 6.10/scsi-staging, thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering