ARM: GIC: Convert GIC library to use the IO relaxed operations
The GIC register accesses today make use of readl()/writel() which prove to be very expensive when used along with mandatory barriers. This mandatory barriers also introduces an un-necessary and expensive l2x0_sync() operation. On Cortex-A9 MP cores, GIC IO accesses from CPU are direct and doesn't go through L2X0 write buffer. A DSB before writel_relaxed() in gic_raise_softirq() is added to be compliant with the Barrier Litmus document - the mailbox scenario. Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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