On Wed, 27 May 2020, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

On Tue, 26 May 2020, Mikulas Patocka wrote:

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This patch makes barriers confiorm to the specification.

1. We add mb() before readX_relaxed and writeX_relaxed -
   memory-barriers.txt claims that these functions must be ordered w.r.t.
   each other. Alpha doesn't order them, so we need an explicit barrier.
2. We add mb() before reads from the I/O space - so that if there's a
   write followed by a read, there should be a barrier between them.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Fixes: cd0e00c10672 ("alpha: io: reorder barriers to guarantee writeX() and iowriteX() ordering")
Fixes: 92d7223a7423 ("alpha: io: reorder barriers to guarantee writeX() and iowriteX() ordering #2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org      # v4.17+
Acked-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <redacted>

 LGTM, thanks for persistence!

Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <redacted>

  Maciej

Hi

Will you submit the patch to Linus' tree in this merge window?

Mikulas