[PATCH 2/2] arm:kvm remove len 8 for mmio read write buf

[Peng Fan]

Just began learning this piece of code.
Thanks for correcting me. 

On 12/22/2014 07:51 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 22/12/14 11:23, Peng Fan wrote:
>> For arm 32 bit architecture, 8 bytes load/store operation in one instruction
>> will not be generated by compiler.
> 
> Ever heard of lrdr/strd?
> 
>> And before invoke mmio_read_buf, there is a piece of code:
>> "
>>                  len = run->mmio.len;
>>                  if (len > sizeof(unsigned long))
>>                          return -EINVAL;
>>
>> 		data = mmio_read_buf(run->mmio.data, len);
>> "
>>
>> This piece code also tells that len variable does not exceeds 4 bytes.
>> So, remove 8 bytes assign in mmio_read_buf and mmio_write_buf.
> 
> NAK. This code is shared between arm and arm64. See commit f42798c.
> 
> 	M.
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <van.freenix at gmail.com>
>> CC: Gleb Natapov <gleb at kernel.org>
>> CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
>> CC: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
>> CC: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
>> CC: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c | 10 ----------
>>  1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
>> index 4cb5a93..953a819 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
>> @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ static void mmio_write_buf(char *buf, unsigned int len, unsigned long data)
>>  		u8	byte;
>>  		u16	hword;
>>  		u32	word;
>> -		u64	dword;
>>  	} tmp;
>>  
>>  	switch (len) {
>> @@ -46,10 +45,6 @@ static void mmio_write_buf(char *buf, unsigned int len, unsigned long data)
>>  		tmp.word	= data;
>>  		datap		= &tmp.word;
>>  		break;
>> -	case 8:
>> -		tmp.dword	= data;
>> -		datap		= &tmp.dword;
>> -		break;
>>  	}
>>  
>>  	memcpy(buf, datap, len);
>> @@ -61,7 +56,6 @@ static unsigned long mmio_read_buf(char *buf, unsigned int len)
>>  	union {
>>  		u16	hword;
>>  		u32	word;
>> -		u64	dword;
>>  	} tmp;
>>  
>>  	switch (len) {
>> @@ -76,10 +70,6 @@ static unsigned long mmio_read_buf(char *buf, unsigned int len)
>>  		memcpy(&tmp.word, buf, len);
>>  		data = tmp.word;
>>  		break;
>> -	case 8:
>> -		memcpy(&tmp.dword, buf, len);
>> -		data = tmp.dword;
>> -		break;
>>  	}
>>  
>>  	return data;
>>
> 
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