linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the pci tree with the asm-generic tree

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Date:	Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:13:57 +0100
From:	Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@....com>
To:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the pci tree with the asm-generic
 tree

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 08:00:23AM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 01:29:02PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Bjorn,
> > 
> > Today's linux-next merge of the pci tree got a conflict in
> > include/asm-generic/io.h between commit 4005bfe0aa45
> > ("asm-generic/io.h: Implement generic {read,write}s*()") from the
> > asm-generic tree and commit 3aad9c969c09 ("asm-generic/io.h: Fix
> > ioport_map() for !CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP") from the pci tree.
> > 
> > I fixed it up (the only difference is that the latter castes the result
> > to void __iomem * - see below) and can carry the fix as necessary (no
> > action is required).
> > 
> > -- 
> > Cheers,
> > Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
> > 
> > diff --cc include/asm-generic/io.h
> > index 3e976be3bdd4,2e2161b0c795..000000000000
> > --- a/include/asm-generic/io.h
> > +++ b/include/asm-generic/io.h
> > @@@ -756,16 -329,11 +756,16 @@@ static inline void iounmap(void __iome
> >   
> >   #ifdef CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT_MAP
> >   #ifndef CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP
> >  +#ifndef ioport_map
> >  +#define ioport_map ioport_map
> >   static inline void __iomem *ioport_map(unsigned long port, unsigned int nr)
> >   {
> > - 	return PCI_IOBASE + (port & IO_SPACE_LIMIT);
> > + 	return (void __iomem *)(PCI_IOBASE + (port & IO_SPACE_LIMIT));
> 
> I don't think that cast is necessary. All instances of PCI_IOBASE are
> already defined to be void __iomem *.
> 
> Or at least they were until a few days ago. Commit f3dfddf7bd85 (ARM:
> Define PCI_IOBASE as the base of virtual PCI IO space) introduces one
> variant for ARM which isn't actually void __iomem *. I think what we
> should do is standardize the type of PCI_IOBASE.
> 
> So how about we remove commit 3aad9c969c09 (asm-generic/io.h: Fix
> ioport_map() for !CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP) and move the cast to void
> __iomem * to Liviu's definition of PCI_IOBASE for ARM?
> 
> Thierry

Hi Stephen,

I agree with Thierry's solution.

I don't know how these cases are handled. Should I send Bjorn a patch for his tree?

Best regards,
Liviu


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