On Wed, 2018-03-28 at 07:41 -0400, ok...@codeaurora.org wrote: > Yes, we want to get there indeed. It is because of some arch not > implementing writel properly. Maintainers want to play safe. > > That is why I asked if IA64 and other well known archs follow the > strongly ordered rule at this moment like PPC and ARM. > > Or should we go and inform every arch about this before yanking wmb()? > > Maintainers are afraid of introducing a regression.
Let's fix all archs, it's way easier than fixing all drivers. Half of the archs are unused or dead anyway. > > > > The above code makes no sense, and just looks stupid to me. It also > > generates pointlessly bad code on x86, so it's bad there too. > > > > Linus
