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-rw-r--r--drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c5
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diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c
index c9699a59f93c..f9a36bc7ac27 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c
@@ -253,6 +253,11 @@ static void vm_set_status(struct virtio_device *vdev, u8 status)
/* We should never be setting status to 0. */
BUG_ON(status == 0);
+ /*
+ * Per memory-barriers.txt, wmb() is not needed to guarantee
+ * that the the cache coherent memory writes have completed
+ * before writing to the MMIO region.
+ */
writel(status, vm_dev->base + VIRTIO_MMIO_STATUS);
}