The relaxed variants of read/write macros are only declared as `asm volatile()` which forces the compiler to generate the instruction in the code path as intended. The only problem is that it doesn't also tell the compiler that there may be memory side effects. Meaning that if a function is comprised entirely of relaxed io operations, the compiler may think that it only has register side effects and doesn't need to be called.
For an example function look at bcmgenet_enable_dma(), before the relaxed variants were removed. When built with gcc12 the code contains the asm blocks as expected, but then the function is never called. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.lin...@arm.com> --- arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h index 7fd836bea7eb..3cceda7948a0 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h @@ -24,25 +24,25 @@ #define __raw_writeb __raw_writeb static inline void __raw_writeb(u8 val, volatile void __iomem *addr) { - asm volatile("strb %w0, [%1]" : : "rZ" (val), "r" (addr)); + asm volatile("strb %w0, [%1]" : : "rZ" (val), "r" (addr) : "memory"); } #define __raw_writew __raw_writew static inline void __raw_writew(u16 val, volatile void __iomem *addr) { - asm volatile("strh %w0, [%1]" : : "rZ" (val), "r" (addr)); + asm volatile("strh %w0, [%1]" : : "rZ" (val), "r" (addr) : "memory"); } #define __raw_writel __raw_writel static __always_inline void __raw_writel(u32 val, volatile void __iomem *addr) { - asm volatile("str %w0, [%1]" : : "rZ" (val), "r" (addr)); + asm volatile("str %w0, [%1]" : : "rZ" (val), "r" (addr) : "memory"); } #define __raw_writeq __raw_writeq static inline void __raw_writeq(u64 val, volatile void __iomem *addr) { - asm volatile("str %x0, [%1]" : : "rZ" (val), "r" (addr)); + asm volatile("str %x0, [%1]" : : "rZ" (val), "r" (addr) : "memory"); } #define __raw_readb __raw_readb -- 2.35.1