qlcnic: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
authorSinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 14:39:16 +0000 (10:39 -0400)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 16:47:55 +0000 (12:47 -0400)
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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_hw.c

index 46b0372dd032695394b742c17951ca1e25c7ca0a..97c146e7698a61c19e4a5065be9a9e29659b1082 100644 (file)
@@ -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);