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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 6/6] xen: arm: relax barriers when flushing caches



At 09:59 +0100 on 03 Apr (1396515585), Ian Campbell wrote:
> We only need an inner shareable barrier here.

Following the logic we had earlier, do the earlier dsbs here only need
to be store barriers?

Tim.

> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v4: new patch
> ---
>  xen/include/asm-arm/page.h |   16 ++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/xen/include/asm-arm/page.h b/xen/include/asm-arm/page.h
> index a96e40b..b4d5597 100644
> --- a/xen/include/asm-arm/page.h
> +++ b/xen/include/asm-arm/page.h
> @@ -263,20 +263,20 @@ extern size_t cacheline_bytes;
>  static inline void clean_xen_dcache_va_range(void *p, unsigned long size)
>  {
>      void *end;
> -    dsb(sy);           /* So the CPU issues all writes to the range */
> +    dsb(ish);          /* So the CPU issues all writes to the range */
>      for ( end = p + size; p < end; p += cacheline_bytes )
>          asm volatile (__clean_xen_dcache_one(0) : : "r" (p));
> -    dsb(sy);           /* So we know the flushes happen before continuing */
> +    dsb(ish);          /* So we know the flushes happen before continuing */
>  }
>  
>  static inline void clean_and_invalidate_xen_dcache_va_range
>      (void *p, unsigned long size)
>  {
>      void *end;
> -    dsb(sy);         /* So the CPU issues all writes to the range */
> +    dsb(ish);        /* So the CPU issues all writes to the range */
>      for ( end = p + size; p < end; p += cacheline_bytes )
>          asm volatile (__clean_and_invalidate_xen_dcache_one(0) : : "r" (p));
> -    dsb(sy);         /* So we know the flushes happen before continuing */
> +    dsb(ish);        /* So we know the flushes happen before continuing */
>  }
>  
>  /* Macros for flushing a single small item.  The predicate is always
> @@ -288,9 +288,9 @@ static inline void 
> clean_and_invalidate_xen_dcache_va_range
>          clean_xen_dcache_va_range(_p, sizeof(x));                       \
>      else                                                                \
>          asm volatile (                                                  \
> -            "dsb sy;"   /* Finish all earlier writes */                 \
> +            "dsb ish;"  /* Finish all earlier writes */                 \
>              __clean_xen_dcache_one(0)                                   \
> -            "dsb sy;"   /* Finish flush before continuing */            \
> +            "dsb ish;"  /* Finish flush before continuing */            \
>              : : "r" (_p), "m" (*_p));                                   \
>  } while (0)
>  
> @@ -300,9 +300,9 @@ static inline void 
> clean_and_invalidate_xen_dcache_va_range
>          clean_and_invalidate_xen_dcache_va_range(_p, sizeof(x));        \
>      else                                                                \
>          asm volatile (                                                  \
> -            "dsb sy;"   /* Finish all earlier writes */                 \
> +            "dsb ish;"   /* Finish all earlier writes */                \
>              __clean_and_invalidate_xen_dcache_one(0)                    \
> -            "dsb sy;"   /* Finish flush before continuing */            \
> +            "dsb ish;"   /* Finish flush before continuing */           \
>              : : "r" (_p), "m" (*_p));                                   \
>  } while (0)
>  
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4
> 
> 
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