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Revision 9e0daff30fd7ecf698e5d20b0fa7f851e427cca5 authored by David S. Miller on 13 April 2012, 18:56:22 UTC, committed by David S. Miller on 13 April 2012, 18:56:22 UTC
The DS driver registers as a subsys_initcall() but this can be too early, in particular this risks registering before we've had a chance to allocate and setup module_kset in kernel/params.c which is performed also as a subsyts_initcall(). Register DS using device_initcall() insteal. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Tip revision: 9e0daff30fd7ecf698e5d20b0fa7f851e427cca5 authored by David S. Miller on 13 April 2012, 18:56:22 UTC
sparc64: Fix bootup crash on sun4v.
sparc64: Fix bootup crash on sun4v.
Tip revision: 9e0daff
io_ordering.txt
On some platforms, so-called memory-mapped I/O is weakly ordered. On such
platforms, driver writers are responsible for ensuring that I/O writes to
memory-mapped addresses on their device arrive in the order intended. This is
typically done by reading a 'safe' device or bridge register, causing the I/O
chipset to flush pending writes to the device before any reads are posted. A
driver would usually use this technique immediately prior to the exit of a
critical section of code protected by spinlocks. This would ensure that
subsequent writes to I/O space arrived only after all prior writes (much like a
memory barrier op, mb(), only with respect to I/O).
A more concrete example from a hypothetical device driver:
...
CPU A: spin_lock_irqsave(&dev_lock, flags)
CPU A: val = readl(my_status);
CPU A: ...
CPU A: writel(newval, ring_ptr);
CPU A: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev_lock, flags)
...
CPU B: spin_lock_irqsave(&dev_lock, flags)
CPU B: val = readl(my_status);
CPU B: ...
CPU B: writel(newval2, ring_ptr);
CPU B: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev_lock, flags)
...
In the case above, the device may receive newval2 before it receives newval,
which could cause problems. Fixing it is easy enough though:
...
CPU A: spin_lock_irqsave(&dev_lock, flags)
CPU A: val = readl(my_status);
CPU A: ...
CPU A: writel(newval, ring_ptr);
CPU A: (void)readl(safe_register); /* maybe a config register? */
CPU A: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev_lock, flags)
...
CPU B: spin_lock_irqsave(&dev_lock, flags)
CPU B: val = readl(my_status);
CPU B: ...
CPU B: writel(newval2, ring_ptr);
CPU B: (void)readl(safe_register); /* maybe a config register? */
CPU B: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev_lock, flags)
Here, the reads from safe_register will cause the I/O chipset to flush any
pending writes before actually posting the read to the chipset, preventing
possible data corruption.
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