linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 28/34] brcmfmac: pcie: Replace brcmf_pcie_copy_mem_todev with memcpy

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Date:   Sun, 2 Jan 2022 07:15:03 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Hector Martin <marcan@...can.st>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 28/34] brcmfmac: pcie: Replace brcmf_pcie_copy_mem_todev
 with memcpy_toio

On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 4:40 PM Hector Martin <marcan@...can.st> wrote:

> The alignment check was wrong (e.g. & 4 instead of & 3), and the logic
> was also inefficient if the length was not a multiple of 4, since it
> would needlessly fall back to copying the entire buffer bytewise.
>
> We already have a perfectly good memcpy_toio function, so just call that
> instead of rolling our own copy logic here. brcmf_pcie_init_ringbuffers
> was already using it anyway.
>
> Fixes: 9e37f045d5e7 ("brcmfmac: Adding PCIe bus layer support.")
> Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <marcan@...can.st>

Excellent patch.
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij