2024-01-22 18:14:05

by Andrew Halaney

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Subject: [PATCH RFC v4 11/11] scsi: ufs: core: Remove unnecessary wmb() prior to writing run/stop regs

Currently a wmb() is used to ensure that writes to the

UTP_TASK_REQ_LIST_BASE* regs are completed prior to following writes to

the run/stop registers.



wmb() ensure that the write completes, but completion doesn't mean that

it isn't stored in a buffer somewhere. The recommendation for

ensuring the bits have 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, none of that is necessary here. All of the writel()/readl()'s here

are to the same endpoint, so they will be ordered. There's no subsequent

delay() etc that requires it to have taken effect already, so no

readback is necessary here.



For that reason just drop the wmb() altogether.



Fixes: 897efe628d7e ("scsi: ufs: add missing memory barriers")

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

---

drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c | 6 ------

1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)



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

index 21f93d8e5818..358857ea9ff6 100644

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

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

@@ -4722,12 +4722,6 @@ int ufshcd_make_hba_operational(struct ufs_hba *hba)

ufshcd_writel(hba, upper_32_bits(hba->utmrdl_dma_addr),

REG_UTP_TASK_REQ_LIST_BASE_H);



- /*

- * Make sure base address and interrupt setup are updated before

- * enabling the run/stop registers below.

- */

- wmb();

-

/*

* UCRDY, UTMRLDY and UTRLRDY bits must be 1

*/



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