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

Robin Murphy robin.murphy at arm.com
Mon Apr 25 08:28:01 PDT 2016


Hi Arnd,

On 25/04/16 16:21, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 25 April 2016 14:32:42 Will Deacon wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> +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.
>
> I'd prefer the open-coded variant as well.

By that, do you mean sticking with the smmu_writeq() implementation in 
the driver and dropping this patch, or merging this patch as-is without 
further macro-magic?

Thanks,
Robin.

>
> 	Arnd
>




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