From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] iomap: introduce io{read|write}64_{lo_hi|hi_lo}
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 21:03:03 +0300
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On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 9:00 PM, Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> wrote:
> On 31/07/17 11:58 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> wrote:
>>> On 31/07/17 10:10 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>>> Some drivers (hardware) would like to have non-atomic MMIO accesses
>>>> when readq() defined
>>>
>>> Huh? But that's the whole point of the io64-nonatomic header. If a
>>> driver wants a specific non-atomic access they should just code two 32
>>> bit accesses.
>
>> You mean to call them directly as lo_hi_XXX() or hi_lo_XXX() ?
>> Yes it would work.
>
> I suppose you could do that too but I really meant just using two io32
> calls. That's the most explicit way to indicate you want a non-atomic
> access.

Per commit 3a044178cccf they are exactly created for this kind of cases.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko