[PATCH] dmaengine: stm32-mdma: avoid 64-bit division

[Benjamin Gaignard]

2017-10-11 16:39 GMT+02:00 Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Benjamin Gaignard
> <benjamin.gaignard at linaro.org> wrote:
>> 2017-10-11 16:01 GMT+02:00 Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>:
>>
>>> @@ -398,6 +400,9 @@ static enum dma_slave_buswidth stm32_mdma_get_max_width(u32 buf_len, u32 tlen)
>>>                         break;
>>>         }
>>>
>>> +       if (addr % max_width)
>>> +               max_width = DMA_SLAVE_BUSWIDTH_1_BYTE;
>>> +
>>
>> I'm only half-convince by the implicite 32 bits cast done into
>> function prototype.
>> If we keep using dma_addr_t and use do_div() instead of %
>> does compiler can still optimize the code ?
>>
>
> I wouldn't want to add a do_div() here, since it's guaranteed
> not to be needed. Would you prefer an explicit cast here
> and leave the argument as dma_addr_t?
>
> We could also use a bit mask here like
>
>   if (addr & (max_width-1))

That sound better for me since it doesn't limit the code to 32 bits architecture

>
> or we could combined it with the check above:
>
>                 if ((((buf_len | addr) & (max_width - 1)) == 0) &&
>                    (tlen >= max_width))

No it is more simple to read with two checks

Benjamin
>
>        Arnd