[PATCH] OMAP: use fncpy to copy the PM code functions to SRAM

Jean Pihet jean.pihet at newoldbits.com
Mon Jan 17 09:01:28 EST 2011


On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 05:13:01PM +0100, Jean Pihet wrote:
>> Is the name 'omap_sram_push' wrong then?
>> What about the following?
>> @@ -251,9 +251,8 @@ void * omap_sram_push(void * start, unsigned long size)
>>
>>        omap_sram_ceil -= size;
>>        omap_sram_ceil = ROUND_DOWN(omap_sram_ceil, sizeof(void *));
>>  -     memcpy((void *)omap_sram_ceil, start, size);
>>  -     flush_icache_range((unsigned long)omap_sram_ceil,
>>  -             (unsigned long)(omap_sram_ceil + size));
>>
>>  -     return (void *)omap_sram_ceil;
>>  +    return fncpy((void *)omap_sram_ceil, start, size);
>
> It's more correct, but still missing out on the type safety which we've
> tried to provide with fncpy.
IIUC the type of the function is propagated from the 2nd argument
(funcp) to the return value, which is fine here. The (void)* is here
only to avoid a warning thrown by memcpy.

> Note also the other issue with Dave Martin
> has raised though - this isn't ready for merging yet.
Ok I am using the latest version now and will re-spin the patch.

Regards,
Jean



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