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Re: [PATCH 4/7] alpha: provide ioread64 and iowrite64 implementations

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On 6/22/2017 2:08 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> But this does not do the same thing as an ioread64 with regards to
> atomicity or side effects on the device. The same is true of the other
> hacks. You either have a real 64bit single read/write from MMIO space or
> you don't. You can't fake it.

Yes, I know. But is it not better than having every driver that wants to 
use these functions fake it themselves?

Logan

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[PATCH 4/7] alpha: provide ioread64 and iowrite64 implementations Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> - 2017-06-22 19:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 4/7] alpha: provide ioread64 and iowrite64 implementations "Stephen  Bates" <sbates@raithlin.com> - 2017-06-22 19:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 4/7] alpha: provide ioread64 and iowrite64 implementations Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> - 2017-06-22 19:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 4/7] alpha: provide ioread64 and iowrite64  implementations Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2017-06-22 22:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 4/7] alpha: provide ioread64 and iowrite64 implementations Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> - 2017-06-22 22:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 4/7] alpha: provide ioread64 and iowrite64 implementations Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-06-22 23:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 4/7] alpha: provide ioread64 and iowrite64 implementations Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> - 2017-06-22 23:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 4/7] alpha: provide ioread64 and iowrite64 implementations Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> - 2017-06-22 23:30 +0200

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