[PATCH 2/2] drm/gpu: Fix Memory barrier without comment Issue

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Fri Oct 25 07:35:31 UTC 2019


On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 11:57:38AM +0530, Bhanusree wrote:
> -Issue found using checkpatch.pl
> -Insert comments for memory barrier usage
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bhanusree <bhanusreemahesh at gmail.com>

Thanks for your patch, applied.
-Daniel

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cache.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cache.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cache.c
> index 12f8d1b..03e01b0 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cache.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cache.c
> @@ -126,10 +126,10 @@ drm_clflush_sg(struct sg_table *st)
>  	if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH)) {
>  		struct sg_page_iter sg_iter;
>  
> -		mb();
> +		mb(); /*CLFLUSH is ordered only by using memory barriers*/
>  		for_each_sg_page(st->sgl, &sg_iter, st->nents, 0)
>  			drm_clflush_page(sg_page_iter_page(&sg_iter));
> -		mb();
> +		mb(); /*Make sure that all cache line entry is flushed*/
>  
>  		return;
>  	}
> @@ -160,11 +160,11 @@ drm_clflush_virt_range(void *addr, unsigned long length)
>  		void *end = addr + length;
>  
>  		addr = (void *)(((unsigned long)addr) & -size);
> -		mb();
> +		mb(); /*CLFLUSH is only ordered with a full memory barrier*/
>  		for (; addr < end; addr += size)
>  			clflushopt(addr);
>  		clflushopt(end - 1); /* force serialisation */
> -		mb();
> +		mb(); /*Ensure that evry data cache line entry is flushed*/
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 

-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch


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