[PATCH] i2c: designware: use {readl|writel}_relaxed instead of readl/writel

Wolfram Sang wsa at the-dreams.de
Fri Jan 23 08:09:26 PST 2015


On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 02:26:41PM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> readl/writel is too expensive especially on Cortex A9 w/ outer L2 cache.
> This introduces i2c read/write errors on Marvell BG2/BG2Q SoCs when there
> are heavy L2 cache maintenance operations at the same time.
> 
> The driver does not perform DMA, so it's safe to use the relaxed version.
> From another side, the relaxed io accessor macros are available on all
> architectures now, so we can use the relaxed versions instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at marvell.com>

Applied to for-next, thanks! Just replaced "errors" with "delays" in the
description.

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