x86: MMIO and gcc re-ordering issue

On Tue, 27 May 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Expecting people to fix up all drivers is simply not going to happen. And
> serializing things shouldn't be *that* expensive. People who cannot take
> the expense can continue to use the magic __raw_writel() etc stuff.

Of course, for non-x86, you kind of have to expect drivers to be
well-behaved, so non-x86 can probably avoid this simply because there are
less relevant drivers involved.

Here's a UNTESTED patch for x86 that may or may not compile and work, and
which serializes (on a compiler level) the IO accesses against regular
memory accesses.

__read[bwlq]()/__write[bwlq]() are not serialized with a :"memory"
barrier, although since they still use "asm volatile" I suspect that i
practice they are probably serial too. Did not look very closely at any
generated code (only did a trivial test to see that the code looks
*roughly* correct).

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 71 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-x86/io_64.h b/include/asm-x86/io_64.h
index 0930bedf9e4d..ddd8058a5026 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/io_64.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/io_64.h
@@ -204,77 +204,6 @@ extern void __iomem *fix_ioremap(unsigned idx, unsigned long phys);
 #define virt_to_bus virt_to_phys
 #define bus_to_virt phys_to_virt
 
-/*
- * readX/writeX() are used to access memory mapped devices. On some
- * architectures the memory mapped IO stuff needs to be accessed
- * differently. On the x86 architecture, we just read/write the
- * memory location directly.
- */
-
-static inline __u8 __readb(const volatile void __iomem *addr)
-{
-	return *(__force volatile __u8 *)addr;
-}
-
-static inline __u16 __readw(const volatile void __iomem *addr)
-{
-	return *(__force volatile __u16 *)addr;
-}
-
-static __always_inline __u32 __readl(const volatile void __iomem *addr)
-{
-	return *(__force volatile __u32 *)addr;
-}
-
-static inline __u64 __readq(const volatile void __iomem *addr)
-{
-	return *(__force volatile __u64 *)addr;
-}
-
-#define readb(x) __readb(x)
-#define readw(x) __readw(x)
-#define readl(x) __readl(x)
-#define readq(x) __readq(x)
-#define readb_relaxed(a) readb(a)
-#define readw_relaxed(a) readw(a)
-#define readl_relaxed(a) readl(a)
-#define readq_relaxed(a) readq(a)
-#define __raw_readb readb
-#define __raw_readw readw
-#define __raw_readl readl
-#define __raw_readq readq
-
-#define mmiowb()
-
-static inline void __writel(__u32 b, volatile void __iomem *addr)
-{
-	*(__force volatile __u32 *)addr = b;
-}
-
-static inline void __writeq(__u64 b, volatile void __iomem *addr)
-{
-	*(__force volatile __u64 *)addr = b;
-}
-
-static inline void __writeb(__u8 b, volatile void __iomem *addr)
-{
-	*(__force volatile __u8 *)addr = b;
-}
-
-static inline void __writew(__u16 b, volatile void __iomem *addr)
-{
-	*(__force volatile __u16 *)addr = b;
-}
-
-#define writeq(val, addr) __writeq((val), (addr))
-#define writel(val, addr) __writel((val), (addr))
-#define writew(val, addr) __writew((val), (addr))
-#define writeb(val, addr) __writeb((val), (addr))
-#define __raw_writeb writeb
-#define __raw_writew writew
-#define __raw_writel writel
-#define __raw_writeq writeq
-
 void __memcpy_fromio(void *, unsigned long, unsigned);
 void __memcpy_toio(unsigned long, const void *, unsigned);