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-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_wc_ppc64.c20
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_wc_ppc64.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_wc_ppc64.c
index 036fde662aa9..0095bb70f34e 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_wc_ppc64.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_wc_ppc64.c
@@ -38,13 +38,23 @@
#include "ipath_kernel.h"
/**
- * ipath_unordered_wc - indicate whether write combining is ordered
+ * ipath_enable_wc - enable write combining for MMIO writes to the device
+ * @dd: infinipath device
*
- * PowerPC systems (at least those in the 970 processor family)
- * write partially filled store buffers in address order, but will write
- * completely filled store buffers in "random" order, and therefore must
- * have serialization for correctness with current InfiniPath chips.
+ * Nothing to do on PowerPC, so just return without error.
+ */
+int ipath_enable_wc(struct ipath_devdata *dd)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * ipath_unordered_wc - indicate whether write combining is unordered
*
+ * Because our performance depends on our ability to do write
+ * combining mmio writes in the most efficient way, we need to
+ * know if we are on a processor that may reorder stores when
+ * write combining.
*/
int ipath_unordered_wc(void)
{