From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] drm/radeon: Add a rmb() in IH processing Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:43:25 +1000 Message-ID: <1310705005.4968.306.camel@pasglop> References: <1310538499.4968.94.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: Matt Turner Cc: xorg-driver-ati@lists.x.org, Cedric Cano , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 04:19 +0000, Matt Turner wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > wrote: > > We should have a read memory barrier between reading the WPTR from > > memory and reading ring entries based on that value (ie, we need to > > ensure both loads are done in order by the CPU). > > > > It could be argued that the MMIO reads in r600_ack_irq() might be > > enough to get that barrier but I prefer keeping an explicit one just > > in case. > > > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt > > --- > > > > (resent adding dri-devel to the CC list to hit patchwork) > > > > drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600.c | 3 +++ > > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600.c > > index 3c86b15..7e5c801 100644 > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600.c > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/r600.c > > @@ -3312,6 +3312,9 @@ int r600_irq_process(struct radeon_device *rdev) > > } > > > > restart_ih: > > + /* Order reading of wptr vs. reading of IH ring data */ > > + wmb(); > > + > > /* display interrupts */ > > r600_irq_ack(rdev); > > The subject line says rmb(), but this says wmb(). Just want to verify > what you have is correct. Nice spotting, it's a typo and should have been rmb(). I'll fix it and respin. Cheers, Ben