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Commit dbee8a0a authored by Roland Dreier's avatar Roland Dreier Committed by Linus Torvalds
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x86: remove 32-bit versions of readq()/writeq()

The presense of a writeq() implementation on 32-bit x86 that splits the
64-bit write into two 32-bit writes turns out to break the mpt2sas driver
(and in general is risky for drivers as was discussed in
<http://lkml.kernel.org/r/adaab6c1h7c.fsf@cisco.com>).  To fix this,
revert 2c5643b1 ("x86: provide readq()/writeq() on 32-bit too") and
follow-on cleanups.

This unfortunately leads to pushing non-atomic definitions of readq() and
write() to various x86-only drivers that in the meantime started using the
definitions in the x86 version of <asm/io.h>.  However as discussed
exhaustively, this is actually the right thing to do, because the right
way to split a 64-bit transaction is hardware dependent and therefore
belongs in the hardware driver (eg mpt2sas needs a spinlock to make sure
no other accesses occur in between the two halves of the access).

Build tested on 32- and 64-bit x86 allmodconfig.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/x86-32-writeq-is-broken@mdm.bga.com


Acked-by: default avatarHitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com>
Cc: Kashyap Desai <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Ravi Anand <ravi.anand@qlogic.com>
Cc: Vikas Chaudhary <vikas.chaudhary@qlogic.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@akamai.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@parallels.com>
Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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