svn commit: r339618 - head/sys/compat/linuxkpi/common/include/linux

[Matthew Macy]

>
>
> > PowerPC barrier instructions are needed to prevent reordering.
> >
> > Correct. The current lkpi implementation also assumes that device
> > endian == host endian. The Linux generic accessors will do use endian
> > macros to byte swap where necessary.
>
> Yes, these functions are used to access little-endian registers so byte
> swapping is needed on big-endian machines.  For PowerPC Linux also defines
> functions to access big-endian registers, but we probably don't need those.
>

None of our currently supported drivers use those macros (most devices are
LE) so I’ve omitted them.

-M



> > The following change fixes radeon attach issues:
> >
> https://github.com/POWER9BSD/freebsd/commit/be6c98f5c2e2ed9a4935ac5b67c468b75f3b4457
>
> +/* prevent prefetching of coherent DMA data ahead of a dma-complete */
> +#ifndef __io_ar
> +#ifdef rmb
> +#define __io_ar()      rmb()
> +#else
> +#define __io_ar()      __compiler_membar();
> +#endif
> +#endif
> +
> +/* flush writes to coherent DMA data before possibly triggering a DMA
> read */
> +#ifndef __io_bw
> +#ifdef wmb
> +#define __io_bw()      wmb()
> +#else
> +#define __io_bw()      __compiler_membar();
> +#endif
> +#endif
>
> ...
>
>  static inline uint16_t
>  readw(const volatile void *addr)
>  {
>         uint16_t v;
>
> -       __compiler_membar();
> -       v = *(const volatile uint16_t *)addr;
> -       __compiler_membar();
> +       __io_br();
> +       v = le16toh(__raw_readw(addr));
> +       __io_ar();
>         return (v);
>  }
>
> For x86 rmb and wmb are defined as lfence and sfence instructions which
> shouldn't be necessary here.
>