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Date:   Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:02:54 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc:     Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
        Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>, will@kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] asm-generic: Add memory barrier dma_mb()
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On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 10:45:22AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 12:18:41PM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Jun 2022 at 01:13, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 01:35:27PM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 23 May 2022 at 13:21, Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > The memory barrier dma_mb() is introduced by commit a76a37777f2c
> > > > > ("iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Ensure queue is read after updating prod pointer"),
> > > > > which is used to ensure that prior (both reads and writes) accesses
> > > > > to memory by a CPU are ordered w.r.t. a subsequent MMIO write.
> > > > >
> > > > > Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> # for asm-generic
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
> > > >
> > > > Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
> > >
> > > Just checking...  Did these ever get picked up?  It was suggested
> > > that they go up via the arm64 tree, if I remember correctly.
> > 
> > I don't see them in -next, and as far as I can tell, they're not in
> > the arm64 tree.
> 
> Since v4 was posted during the merging window, it hasn't been queued for
> 5.19-rc1. I normally only merge patches with a Fixes tag during the -rc
> period (though there are some exceptions). Mark commented in v1 that
> such tag isn't necessary, so I thought I'd leave it for the 5.20 merging
> window.
> 
> That said, the diffstat is small, so if it helps having this in 5.19, I
> can queue it for -rc4.

As long as it is not going to be lost, I am good.  ;-)

So v5.20 is fine.

							Thanx, Paul