[PATCH v1] iommu/riscv: Support 32-bit register accesses
David Laight
david.laight.linux at gmail.com
Tue Jun 16 03:36:51 PDT 2026
On Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:38:17 +0000
Guo Ren <guoren at kernel.org> wrote:
> Hi Zhanpeng Zhang,
..
> 3. Only performance-monitoring counters require 64-bit IO access or the
> high-low-high do-while retry strategy. For ordinary status and control
> MMIO registers, a single read is sufficient.
Actually this sequence should be enough for a counter:
hi = read_hi();
lo = read_lo();
if (hi != read_hi()) {
// Pick a value that happened while doing the reads.
hi++;
lo = 0;
}
-- David
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