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Commit c17b0aad authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge tag 'asm-generic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

Pull asm-generic fixes from Arnd Bergmann:
 "I have one regression fix for a minor build problem after the
  architecture removal series, plus a rework of the barriers in the
  readl/writel functions, thanks to work by Sinan Kaya:

  This started from a discussion on the linuxpcc and rdma mailing
  lists[1]. To summarize, we decided that architectures are responsible
  to serialize readl() and writel() accesses on a device MMIO space
  relative to DMA performed by that device.

  This series provides a pessimistic implementation of that behavior for
  asm-generic/io.h, which is in turn used by a number of architectures
  (h8300, microblaze, nios2, openrisc, s390, sparc, um, unicore32, and
  xtensa). Some of those presumably need no extra barriers, or something
  weaker than rmb()/wmb(), and they are advised to override the new
  default for better performance.

  For inb()/outb(), the same barriers are used, but architectures might
  want to add another barrier to outb() here if that can guarantee
  non-posted behavior (some architectures can, others cannot do that).

  The readl_relaxed()/writel_relaxed() family of functions retains the
  existing behavior with no extra barriers"

[1] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2018-March/170481.html

* tag 'asm-generic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  io: change writeX_relaxed() to remove barriers
  io: change readX_relaxed() to remove barriers
  dts: remove cris & metag dts hard link file
  io: change inX() to have their own IO barrier overrides
  io: change outX() to have their own IO barrier overrides
  io: define stronger ordering for the default writeX() implementation
  io: define stronger ordering for the default readX() implementation
  io: define several IO & PIO barrier types for the asm-generic version
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