linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH 2/4] asm-generic: io: don't perform swab during {in,out} string functions

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Date:	Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:01:50 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 2/4] asm-generic: io: don't perform swab during
 {in,out} string functions

On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 16:45 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> The {in,out}s{b,w,l} functions are designed to operate on a stream of
> bytes and therefore should not perform any byte-swapping, regardless of
> the CPU byte order.
> 
> This patch fixes the generic IO header so that {in,out}s{b,w,l} call
> the __raw_{read,write} functions directly rather than going via the
> endian-correcting accessors.
> 
> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>

> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> ---
>  include/asm-generic/io.h |   12 ++++++------
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/io.h b/include/asm-generic/io.h
> index 3607921..403b861 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/io.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/io.h
> @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ static inline void insb(unsigned long addr, void *buffer, int count)
>  	if (count) {
>  		u8 *buf = buffer;
>  		do {
> -			u8 x = inb(addr);
> +			u8 x = __raw_readb(addr + PCI_IOBASE);
>  			*buf++ = x;
>  		} while (--count);
>  	}
> @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ static inline void insw(unsigned long addr, void *buffer, int count)
>  	if (count) {
>  		u16 *buf = buffer;
>  		do {
> -			u16 x = inw(addr);
> +			u16 x = __raw_readw(addr + PCI_IOBASE);
>  			*buf++ = x;
>  		} while (--count);
>  	}
> @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ static inline void insl(unsigned long addr, void *buffer, int count)
>  	if (count) {
>  		u32 *buf = buffer;
>  		do {
> -			u32 x = inl(addr);
> +			u32 x = __raw_readl(addr + PCI_IOBASE);
>  			*buf++ = x;
>  		} while (--count);
>  	}
> @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ static inline void outsb(unsigned long addr, const void *buffer, int count)
>  	if (count) {
>  		const u8 *buf = buffer;
>  		do {
> -			outb(*buf++, addr);
> +			__raw_writeb(*buf++, addr + PCI_IOBASE);
>  		} while (--count);
>  	}
>  }
> @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static inline void outsw(unsigned long addr, const void *buffer, int count)
>  	if (count) {
>  		const u16 *buf = buffer;
>  		do {
> -			outw(*buf++, addr);
> +			__raw_writew(*buf++, addr + PCI_IOBASE);
>  		} while (--count);
>  	}
>  }
> @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static inline void outsl(unsigned long addr, const void *buffer, int count)
>  	if (count) {
>  		const u32 *buf = buffer;
>  		do {
> -			outl(*buf++, addr);
> +			__raw_writel(*buf++, addr + PCI_IOBASE);
>  		} while (--count);
>  	}
>  }


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