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Date:   Wed, 20 May 2020 16:48:26 +0300
From:   Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@...kalelectronics.ru>
To:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
CC:     Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>,
        Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@...kalelectronics.ru>,
        Paul Burton <paulburton@...nel.org>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        <linux-mips@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 18/20] mips: csrc-r4k: Decrease r4k-clocksource rating
 if CPU_FREQ enabled

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 03:38:27PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 03:12:01PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> > Since you don't like the way I initially fixed it, suppose there we don't have
> > another way but to introduce something like CONFIG_MIPS_CPS_NS16550_WIDTH
> > parameter to select a proper accessors, like sw in our case, and sb by defaul).
> > Right?
> 
> to be on the safe side it's probably the best thing. But I don't know
> enough about CPS_NS16550 to judge whether shift value correlates with
> possible access width.

The base address passed to the _mips_cps_putc() leaf is UART-base address. It
has nothing to do with CPS. See:
/**
 * _mips_cps_putc() - write a character to the UART
 * @a0: ASCII character to write
 * @t9: UART base address
 */
LEAF(_mips_cps_putc)
1:      lw              t0, UART_LSR_OFS(t9)
        andi            t0, t0, UART_LSR_TEMT
        beqz            t0, 1b
        sb              a0, UART_TX_OFS(t9)
        jr              ra
        END(_mips_cps_putc)

So it's base address must be accessed with proper alignment. On our case it's
lw/sw instructions. Regarding using lw in the first line of the function. That's
must be a bug, since further in the same function they use sb to access the UART
Tx register. So reading a data from UART_LSR register should be also byte-sized
by using lb.

-Sergey

> 
> Thomas.
> 
> -- 
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