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author | Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com> | 2015-08-04 12:17:53 -0700 |
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committer | Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com> | 2015-08-04 15:44:42 -0700 |
commit | 9ca8dbcc65cfc63d6f5ef3312a33184e1d726e00 (patch) | |
tree | 1c9cafbcd35f783a87880a10f85d1a060db1a563 /kernel/Documentation/io_ordering.txt | |
parent | 98260f3884f4a202f9ca5eabed40b1354c489b29 (diff) |
Add the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as base
Import the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as OPNFV kvm base.
It's from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git linux-4.1.y-rt and
the base is:
commit 0917f823c59692d751951bf5ea699a2d1e2f26a2
Author: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Date: Sat Jul 25 12:13:34 2015 +0200
Prepare v4.1.3-rt3
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
We lose all the git history this way and it's not good. We
should apply another opnfv project repo in future.
Change-Id: I87543d81c9df70d99c5001fbdf646b202c19f423
Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/Documentation/io_ordering.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/Documentation/io_ordering.txt | 47 |
1 files changed, 47 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/io_ordering.txt b/kernel/Documentation/io_ordering.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9faae6f26 --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/Documentation/io_ordering.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +On some platforms, so-called memory-mapped I/O is weakly ordered. On such +platforms, driver writers are responsible for ensuring that I/O writes to +memory-mapped addresses on their device arrive in the order intended. This is +typically done by reading a 'safe' device or bridge register, causing the I/O +chipset to flush pending writes to the device before any reads are posted. A +driver would usually use this technique immediately prior to the exit of a +critical section of code protected by spinlocks. This would ensure that +subsequent writes to I/O space arrived only after all prior writes (much like a +memory barrier op, mb(), only with respect to I/O). + +A more concrete example from a hypothetical device driver: + + ... +CPU A: spin_lock_irqsave(&dev_lock, flags) +CPU A: val = readl(my_status); +CPU A: ... +CPU A: writel(newval, ring_ptr); +CPU A: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev_lock, flags) + ... +CPU B: spin_lock_irqsave(&dev_lock, flags) +CPU B: val = readl(my_status); +CPU B: ... +CPU B: writel(newval2, ring_ptr); +CPU B: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev_lock, flags) + ... + +In the case above, the device may receive newval2 before it receives newval, +which could cause problems. Fixing it is easy enough though: + + ... +CPU A: spin_lock_irqsave(&dev_lock, flags) +CPU A: val = readl(my_status); +CPU A: ... +CPU A: writel(newval, ring_ptr); +CPU A: (void)readl(safe_register); /* maybe a config register? */ +CPU A: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev_lock, flags) + ... +CPU B: spin_lock_irqsave(&dev_lock, flags) +CPU B: val = readl(my_status); +CPU B: ... +CPU B: writel(newval2, ring_ptr); +CPU B: (void)readl(safe_register); /* maybe a config register? */ +CPU B: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev_lock, flags) + +Here, the reads from safe_register will cause the I/O chipset to flush any +pending writes before actually posting the read to the chipset, preventing +possible data corruption. |