linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] firmware: arm_scmi: Use {get,put}_unaligned

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Date:   Wed, 7 Aug 2019 15:18:59 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Sudeep Holla' <sudeep.holla@....com>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
CC:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Philipp Zabel" <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] firmware: arm_scmi: Use {get,put}_unaligned_le32
 accessors

From: Sudeep Holla
> Sent: 07 August 2019 14:01
> 
> Instead of type-casting the {tx,rx}.buf all over the place while
> accessing them to read/write __le32 from/to the firmware, let's use
> the nice existing {get,put}_unaligned_le32 accessors to hide all the
> type cast ugliness.

Why the 'unaligned' accessors?

> -	*(__le32 *)t->tx.buf = cpu_to_le32(id);
> +	put_unaligned_le32(id, t->tx.buf);

These will be expensive if the cpu doesn't support them.

	David

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