linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] spi: Mediatek: fix endian warnings

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Message-ID: <1871097.B3YgX5rNy0@wuerfel>
Date:	Sat, 15 Aug 2015 22:16:03 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Leilk Liu <leilk.liu@...iatek.com>
Cc:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: Mediatek: fix endian warnings

On Tuesday 11 August 2015 18:43:09 Leilk Liu wrote:
> @@ -359,9 +359,11 @@ static void mtk_spi_setup_dma_addr(struct spi_master *master,
>         struct mtk_spi *mdata = spi_master_get_devdata(master);
>  
>         if (mdata->tx_sgl)
> -               writel(cpu_to_le32(xfer->tx_dma), mdata->base + SPI_TX_SRC_REG);
> +               writel((__force u32)cpu_to_le32(xfer->tx_dma),
> +                      mdata->base + SPI_TX_SRC_REG);
>         if (mdata->rx_sgl)
> -               writel(cpu_to_le32(xfer->rx_dma), mdata->base + SPI_RX_DST_REG);
> +               writel((__force u32)cpu_to_le32(xfer->rx_dma),
> +                      mdata->base + SPI_RX_DST_REG);
>  }
> 

This looks wrong: writel takes a CPU-endian argument, so the value returned
from cpu_to_le32() is not appropriate.

The warning is correct, and you have to remove the cpu_to_le32() conversion
in order to get the driver to behave correctly when the kernel is built
as big-endian.

	Arnd
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