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

[Boris Brezillon]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 17:43:00 -0500
Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On 10/24/18 4:04 PM, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:25:17 -0500
> > Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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?

Because we want to read a stream of bytes, and, if we have a CPU that is
operating in big-endian (ARM kernels can configured in BE or LE), byte
ordering will be messed up (the controller is LE).

If I use readl_relaxed(), I'll then have to call cpu_to_le32(), and
finally copy the result to the buffer.

> Sry, I've missed that this is part of the driver not i3c core,
> so minor/ignore.
>