2024-01-22 18:05:32

by Andrew Halaney

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Subject: [PATCH RFC v4 10/11] scsi: ufs: core: Remove unnecessary wmb() after ringing doorbell

Currently, the doorbell is written to and a wmb() is used to commit it

immediately.



wmb() ensures that the write completes before following writes occur,

but completion doesn't mean that it isn't stored in a buffer somewhere.

The recommendation for ensuring this bit has taken effect on the device

is to perform a read back to force it to make it all the way to the

device. This is documented in device-io.rst and a talk by Will Deacon on

this can be seen over here:



https://youtu.be/i6DayghhA8Q?si=MiyxB5cKJXSaoc01&t=1678



But, completion and taking effect aren't necessary to guarantee here.



There's already other examples of the doorbell being rung that don't do

this. The writel() of the doorbell guarantees prior writes by this

thread (to the request being setup for example) complete prior to the

ringing of the doorbell, and the following

wait_for_completion_io_timeout() doesn't require any special memory

barriers either.



With that in mind, just remove the wmb() altogether here.



Fixes: ad1a1b9cd67a ("scsi: ufs: commit descriptors before setting the doorbell")

Signed-off-by: Andrew Halaney <[email protected]>

---

drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c | 3 ---

1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)



diff --git a/drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c b/drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c

index 9bf490bb8eed..21f93d8e5818 100644

--- a/drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c

+++ b/drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c

@@ -7047,10 +7047,7 @@ static int __ufshcd_issue_tm_cmd(struct ufs_hba *hba,



/* send command to the controller */

__set_bit(task_tag, &hba->outstanding_tasks);

-

ufshcd_writel(hba, 1 << task_tag, REG_UTP_TASK_REQ_DOOR_BELL);

- /* Make sure that doorbell is committed immediately */

- wmb();



spin_unlock_irqrestore(host->host_lock, flags);





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