linux/arch/sparc
Alexander Duyck 1077fa36f2 arch: Add lightweight memory barriers dma_rmb() and dma_wmb()
There are a number of situations where the mandatory barriers rmb() and
wmb() are used to order memory/memory operations in the device drivers
and those barriers are much heavier than they actually need to be.  For
example in the case of PowerPC wmb() calls the heavy-weight sync
instruction when for coherent memory operations all that is really needed
is an lsync or eieio instruction.

This commit adds a coherent only version of the mandatory memory barriers
rmb() and wmb().  In most cases this should result in the barrier being the
same as the SMP barriers for the SMP case, however in some cases we use a
barrier that is somewhere in between rmb() and smp_rmb().  For example on
ARM the rmb barriers break down as follows:

  Barrier   Call     Explanation
  --------- -------- ----------------------------------
  rmb()     dsb()    Data synchronization barrier - system
  dma_rmb() dmb(osh) data memory barrier - outer sharable
  smp_rmb() dmb(ish) data memory barrier - inner sharable

These new barriers are not as safe as the standard rmb() and wmb().
Specifically they do not guarantee ordering between coherent and incoherent
memories.  The primary use case for these would be to enforce ordering of
reads and writes when accessing coherent memory that is shared between the
CPU and a device.

It may also be noted that there is no dma_mb().  Most architectures don't
provide a good mechanism for performing a coherent only full barrier without
resorting to the same mechanism used in mb().  As such there isn't much to
be gained in trying to define such a function.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-12-11 21:15:06 -05:00
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boot sparc: Add "install" target 2014-08-04 20:45:59 -07:00
configs sparc: Set CONFIG_NET=y in defconfigs 2014-09-24 13:38:30 -04:00
crypto sparc64: fix sparse warnings in aes_glue.c 2014-05-18 19:01:33 -07:00
include arch: Add lightweight memory barriers dma_rmb() and dma_wmb() 2014-12-11 21:15:06 -05:00
kernel Merge branch 'irq-irqdomain-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-12-10 09:01:01 -08:00
lib sparc32: Implement xchg and atomic_xchg using ATOMIC_HASH locks 2014-11-07 12:51:44 -08:00
math-emu arch/sparc/math-emu/math_32.c: drop stray break operator 2014-08-04 20:29:06 -07:00
mm sparc64: Implement __get_user_pages_fast(). 2014-10-24 09:59:02 -07:00
net sparc: bpf_jit: add support for BPF_LD(X) | BPF_LEN instructions 2014-09-26 16:52:09 -04:00
oprofile
power Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc 2014-10-11 20:36:34 -04:00
prom sparc64: Fix register corruption in top-most kernel stack frame during boot. 2014-10-24 09:52:49 -07:00
Kbuild sparc64: Add SHA1 driver making use of the 'sha1' instruction. 2012-08-20 15:08:49 -07:00
Kconfig sparc64: sparse irq 2014-10-05 16:53:40 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile sparc: Add "install" target 2014-08-04 20:45:59 -07:00