linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 6/9] i3c: master: Add driver for Cadence IP

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Message-ID: <380d73a8-2e54-3cee-2fdd-c6e891df93f7@ti.com>
Date:   Wed, 24 Oct 2018 17:43:00 -0500
From:   Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>
To:     Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...tlin.com>
CC:     Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>, <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
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        Vitor Soares <Vitor.Soares@...opsys.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 6/9] i3c: master: Add driver for Cadence IP



On 10/24/18 4:04 PM, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:25:17 -0500
> Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/24/18 1:20 PM, Boris Brezillon wrote:
>>> Hi Arnd,
>>>
>>> On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:34:01 +0200
>>> Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...tlin.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>> +
>>>> +static void cdns_i3c_master_rd_from_rx_fifo(struct cdns_i3c_master *master,
>>>> +					    u8 *bytes, int nbytes)
>>>> +{
>>>> +	readsl(master->regs + RX_FIFO, bytes, nbytes / 4);
>>>
>>> Vitor reported a problem with readsl(): this function expects the 2nd
>>> argument to be aligned on 32-bit, which is not guaranteed here. Unless
>>> you see a better solution, I'll switch back to a loop doing:
>>>
>>> 	for (i = 0; i < nbytes; i += 4) {
>>> 		u32 tmp = __raw_readl(...);
>>
>> Pls, do not use __raw io.
> 
> Except this is exactly what I want here, unless you have a
> replacement for "readl() without a mem-barrier and without endianness
> conversion"
> 

Not sure why endianness is the problem. readl_relaxed?
Sry, I've missed that this is part of the driver not i3c core,
so minor/ignore.

-- 
regards,
-grygorii