linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] BISECTED x86: avoid qword access in memcpy

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Date:	Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:59:48 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	James Smart <james.smart@...lex.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] BISECTED x86: avoid qword access in memcpy_*io

On 07/21/2010 06:23 PM, Hidetoshi Seto wrote:
> 
> It seems that lpfc already implemented lpfc_memcpy_{to,from}_slim()
> as such memcpy_*io32, but limited use of it to on big endian platforms
> only.  Now lpfc can move to use it always, right?
> 

What it probably should do is instead of open-coding this stuff use
__iowrite32_copy and we probably should have a version without double
underscores which byteswaps on bigendian.

Personally I would not object to seeing a patch renaming
__iowrite32_copy() to memcpy_toio32()... especially since it doesn't
have the "memory or I/O space" property of iowrite and friends.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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