Ugh.

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:49:10AM -0600, Josh Cartwright wrote:

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:00:48PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:

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On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 02:42:35PM -0600, Andy Gross wrote:

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Add the DMA engine driver for the QCOM Bus Access Manager (BAM) DMA controller
found in the MSM 8x74 platforms.

Each BAM DMA device is associated with a specific on-chip peripheral.  Each
channel provides a uni-directional data transfer engine that is capable of
transferring data between the peripheral and system memory (System mode), or
between two peripherals (BAM2BAM).

The initial release of this driver only supports slave transfers between
peripherals and system memory.

Signed-off-by: Andy Gross <redacted>

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+++ b/drivers/dma/qcom_bam_dma.c

[..]

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+static void bam_reset_channel(struct bam_chan *bchan)
+{
+	struct bam_device *bdev = bchan->bdev;
+
+	/* reset channel */
+	writel_relaxed(1, bdev->regs + BAM_P_RST(bchan->id));
+	writel_relaxed(0, bdev->regs + BAM_P_RST(bchan->id));
+
+	/* don't allow reorder of the channel reset */
+	wmb();

Documentation/memory-barriers.txt describes wmb() as a CPU barier but based on
above you want it to be a compiler barrier then you should do 1st write,
barrier(), second write.

It could also be that the intent was to prevent these writes from being
ordered before setting the initialized flag below, either way the

          ^ after

comment could be made clearer.

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