From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To:     will@kernel.org, Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>,
        corbet@lwn.net, mark.rutland@arm.com, peterz@infradead.org
Cc:     moyufeng@huawei.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] asm-generic: introduce io_stop_wc() and add implementation for ARM64
Date:   Wed, 22 Dec 2021 11:26:28 +0000
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On Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:55:56 +0800, Xiongfeng Wang wrote:
> For memory accesses with write-combining attributes (e.g. those returned
> by ioremap_wc()), the CPU may wait for prior accesses to be merged with
> subsequent ones. But in some situation, such wait is bad for the
> performance.
> 
> We introduce io_stop_wc() to prevent the merging of write-combining
> memory accesses before this macro with those after it.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!

[1/1] asm-generic: introduce io_stop_wc() and add implementation for ARM64
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/d5624bb29f49

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Catalin