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[v7,2/7] qlcnic: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs

Message ID 1521988761-30344-3-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable, archived
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Sinan Kaya March 25, 2018, 2:39 p.m. UTC 
Code includes wmb() followed by writel(). writel() already has a
barrier on some architectures like arm64.

This ends up CPU observing two barriers back to back before executing
the register write.

Since code already has an explicit barrier call, changing writel() to
writel_relaxed().

Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@cavium.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_hw.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_hw.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_hw.c
index 46b0372..97c146e7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_hw.c
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@  irqreturn_t qlcnic_83xx_clear_legacy_intr(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter)
 	wmb();
 
 	/* clear the interrupt trigger control register */
-	writel(0, adapter->isr_int_vec);
+	writel_relaxed(0, adapter->isr_int_vec);
 	intr_val = readl(adapter->isr_int_vec);
 	do {
 		intr_val = readl(adapter->tgt_status_reg);