[PATCH 1/2] mtd mxc_nand: use 32bit copy functions

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Fri Jun 29 07:28:47 EDT 2012


Hi Artem,

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 02:25:24PM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 19:52 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > I don't know about the sparse problems this introduces, but without this
> > patch the mxc-nand driver is broken, so it should really go in before
> > 3.5.
> 
> The problems, AFAIU, are that you cannot directly dereference __iomem
> pointers, you always need to use helpers like 'readl()'. This patch
> introduces the following warnings:
> 
> +drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c:281:33: warning: incorrect type in initializer (different address spaces) [sparse]
> +drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c:281:33:    expected unsigned int const volatile [usertype] *s [sparse]
> +drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c:281:33:    got void const volatile [noderef] <asn:2>*src [sparse]
> +drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c:284 memcpy32_fromio() warn: side effect in macro '__raw_readl' doing 's++' [smatch]
> +drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c:284:24: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces) [sparse]
> +drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c:284:24:    expected void const volatile [noderef] <asn:2>*<noident> [sparse]
> +drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c:284:24:    got unsigned int const volatile [usertype] * [sparse]
> +drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c:290:27: warning: incorrect type in initializer (different address spaces) [sparse]
> +drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c:290:27:    expected unsigned int volatile [usertype] *t [sparse]
> +drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c:290:27:    got void volatile [noderef] <asn:2>*trg [sparse]
> +drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c:294 memcpy32_toio() warn: side effect in macro '__raw_writel' doing 't++' [smatch]
> +drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c:294:17: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces) [sparse]
> +drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c:294:17:    expected void const volatile [noderef] <asn:2>*<noident> [sparse]
> +drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c:294:17:    got unsigned int volatile [usertype] * [sparse]
> 
> The "volitile" should be also removed.
Did you see that Sascha posted a v2?

Best regards
Uwe

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