Alan Stern wrote:
I've heard that to insure proper synchronization it's necessary to flush
MMIO writes (writel, writew, writeb) to PCI devices by reading from the
same area. Is this equally true for I/O-space writes (inl, inw, inb)?
What about configuration space writes (pci_write_config_dword etc.)?
Technically, according to the PCI specification, I/O space writes may be
posted in the host bus bridge (though unlike MMIO space, not at any
other PCI bridges) and would require a read in order to flush them.
However, there seem to be few if any chipsets ever made which actually
do this for I/O writes, and most code in the kernel seems to just assume
it won't happen, so it's probably safe to assume the same.
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