[PATCH 4/7] io-64-nonatomic: Add relaxed accessor variants

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Apr 25 06:32:42 PDT 2016


On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 06:08:46PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 21/04/16 17:18, Will Deacon wrote:
> >On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 06:13:00PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> >>Whilst commit 9439eb3ab9d1 ("asm-generic: io: implement relaxed
> >>accessor macros as conditional wrappers") makes the *_relaxed forms of
> >>I/O accessors universally available to drivers, in cases where writeq()
> >>is implemented via the io-64-nonatomic helpers, writeq_relaxed() will
> >>end up falling back to writel() regardless of whether writel_relaxed()
> >>is available (identically for s/write/read/).
> >>
> >>Add corresponding relaxed forms of the nonatomic helpers to delegate
> >>to the equivalent 32-bit accessors as appropriate.
> >>
> >>CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> >>CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> >>CC: Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com>
> >>CC: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake.hitoshi at lab.ntt.co.jp>
> >>Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
> >>---
> >>  include/linux/io-64-nonatomic-hi-lo.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  include/linux/io-64-nonatomic-lo-hi.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  2 files changed, 50 insertions(+)
> >>
> >>diff --git a/include/linux/io-64-nonatomic-hi-lo.h b/include/linux/io-64-nonatomic-hi-lo.h
> >>index 11d7e84..1a85566 100644
> >>--- a/include/linux/io-64-nonatomic-hi-lo.h
> >>+++ b/include/linux/io-64-nonatomic-hi-lo.h
> >>@@ -21,6 +21,23 @@ static inline void hi_lo_writeq(__u64 val, volatile void __iomem *addr)
> >>  	writel(val, addr);
> >>  }
> >>
> >>+static inline __u64 hi_lo_readq_relaxed(const volatile void __iomem *addr)
> >>+{
> >>+	const volatile u32 __iomem *p = addr;
> >>+	u32 low, high;
> >>+
> >>+	high = readl_relaxed(p + 1);
> >>+	low = readl_relaxed(p);
> >>+
> >>+	return low + ((u64)high << 32);
> >>+}
> >>+
> >>+static inline void hi_lo_writeq_relaxed(__u64 val, volatile void __iomem *addr)
> >>+{
> >>+	writel_relaxed(val >> 32, addr + 4);
> >>+	writel_relaxed(val, addr);
> >>+}
> >
> >Could we not generate the _relaxed variants with some macro magic?
> 
> We _could_ - indeed I started doing that, but then decided that the
> obfuscation of horrible macro-templated functions wasn't worth saving a
> couple of hundred bytes in some code that isn't exactly difficult to
> maintain and has needed touching once in 4 years.
> 
> If you did want to go down the macro route, I may as well also generate both
> lo-hi and hi-lo headers all from a single template, it'd be really clever...
> <alarm bells> ;)

I certainly wasn't suggesting any more than the obvious macroisation,
but I'll leave it up to Arnd, as I think this falls on his lap.

Will



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