linux-kernel - Re: regmap: mmio: regression in pre-v4.6-rc1

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Date:	Wed, 23 Mar 2016 11:39:39 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@...tec-electronic.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: regmap: mmio: regression in pre-v4.6-rc1

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:16:13PM +0100, Alexander Stein wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 March 2016 10:34:15, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Are you *sure* that this is actually big endian?  Are you basing this on
> > documentation or on what happened to work for you in the past.

> Please refer to QorIQ LS1021A Reference Manual (REV 0) table 2.2 (CCSR block 
> base address map) which states that this peripheral (among _most_ but not all) 
> requires byte swapping. Same for DSPI.
> Yeah, it sounds strange.

I don't have that document.

> > Have you tried tracing through the code to see what ends up happening to
> > the I/O?  It should come out using your architecture's big endian
> > accessors.

> In regmap_mmio_gen_context ctx->reg_read is set to regmap_mmio_read32le and 
> ctx->reg_write to regmap_mmio_write32le respectively.

So how does that happen then?  We set these values if the bus is
default, little or native endian but if it's big endian we go into a
completely different case...

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