Re: [PATCH 4/4] ASoC: fsl: make fsl_ssi driver compilable on ARM/IMX

[Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 09:44:37AM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> >     These functions are not equivalent concerning endianness. You should 
> > probably have used readl_be() instead, else it won't work on PPC anymore.
> 
> readl_be() is not good enough, either.  The in/out_be functions have
> specific syncronization instructions in them, so that the operations
> conform to the PowerPC instruction ordering architecture.

Is your readl() or readl_be() unordered then?  Wouldn't that be buggy
between coherent DMA accesses and accessing, eg, a PCI peripheral to
enable or read DMA status?

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