linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] clk: basic gateable and fixed-rate clks

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Date:	Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:03:16 -0500
From:	Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@...aro.org>
Cc:	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...com>, linux@....linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, jeremy.kerr@...onical.com,
	broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	linus.walleij@...ricsson.com, amit.kucheria@...aro.org,
	dsaxena@...aro.org, patches@...aro.org,
	linaro-dev@...ts.linaro.org, aul@...an.com,
	grant.likely@...retlab.ca, sboyd@...cinc.com,
	shawn.guo@...escale.com, skannan@...cinc.com,
	magnus.damm@...il.com, eric.miao@...aro.org,
	richard.zhao@...aro.org, Mike Turquette <mturquette@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] clk: basic gateable and fixed-rate clks

On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 13:11 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 November 2011, Mike Turquette wrote:
> > +static void clk_hw_gate_set_bit(struct clk *clk)
> > +{
> > +       struct clk_hw_gate *gate = to_clk_hw_gate(clk);
> > +       u32 reg;
> > +
> > +       reg = __raw_readl(gate->reg);
> > +       reg |= BIT(gate->bit_idx);
> > +       __raw_writel(reg, gate->reg);
> > +}
> 
> You cannot rely on __raw_readl() to do the right thing, especially
> in architecture independent code. The safe (but slightly inefficient)
> solution would be readl/writel. For ARM-only code, it would be best
> to use readl_relaxed()/writel_relaxed(), but most architectures do
> not implement that. We can probably add a set of helpers in asm-generic/
> to define them to the default functions, like "#define readl_relaxed(x)
> readl(x)", which I think is a good idea anyway.
> 

readl/writel won't work for big endian CPU when the registers are on a
bus that does the endian swabbing in hardware.

--Mark


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