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From: arnd@arndb•de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 13/15] ARM: make mach/io.h include optional
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:20:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201202141821.00192.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ADE657CA350FB648AAC2C43247A983F001F41FCB510C@AUSP01VMBX24.collaborationhost.net>

On Tuesday 14 February 2012, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:

> outb(v,p)
> {
>         __iowmb();
>         __raw_writeb(v, /* not sure what happens to the (void)p */ (void __iomem *)0);
> }
> 
> To me the original one looks more correct. With Rob's change it looks to me like all
> the in/out macros end up reading/writing to address 0.

Correct.

> I don't get what's happening in Rob's change. Could you enlighten me?

This is the version that gets used when you have neither PCI nor ISA/PCMCIA.

Ideally we would turn outb into an undefined symbol so that we get a 
build error if someone tries to create a kernel that uses outb while
not providing any buses on which it has an effect. Doing that would
depend on a patch series that I started before but never completed,
to ensure that we don't actually try to build device drivers with port
I/O unless we also support one of the buses. The main problem is the 8250
device driver.

The macro from Rob's version always does a NULL pointer dereference, which
is still a bug, but much better than having a potential root hole from
letting (incorrectly built) ISA drivers poke at random addresses.

I guess it would make sense to split this patch into two separate ones,
one that moves all bogus definitions into a common place, and one that
changes them to the NULL pointer dereference.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-14 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-13 21:43 [PATCH 00/15] mach/io.h cleanup and removal Rob Herring
2012-02-13 21:43 ` [PATCH 01/15] usb: ohci-pxa27x: add explicit include of hardware.h Rob Herring
2012-02-13 21:43 ` [PATCH 02/15] ARM: add explicit include of system.h to processor.h Rob Herring
2012-02-13 22:14   ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-02-13 21:43 ` [PATCH 03/15] ARM: provide runtime hook for ioremap Rob Herring
2012-02-13 22:13   ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-02-13 22:30   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-13 22:48     ` Rob Herring
2012-02-13 21:43 ` [PATCH 04/15] ARM: imx: convert to common runtime ioremap hook Rob Herring
2012-02-16  0:17   ` Shawn Guo
2012-02-13 21:43 ` [PATCH 05/15] ARM: msm: use " Rob Herring
2012-02-13 23:05   ` David Brown
2012-02-13 21:43 ` [PATCH 06/15] ARM: msm: clean-up mach/io.h Rob Herring
2012-02-13 21:43 ` [PATCH 07/15] ARM: at91: " Rob Herring
2012-02-14  9:21   ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-02-14 13:24     ` Rob Herring
2012-02-16  7:43       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-02-16 14:08         ` Rob Herring
2012-02-16 14:23           ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-02-23 17:26             ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-02-27 16:55               ` Rob Herring
2012-02-27 17:27                 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-02-13 21:43 ` [PATCH 08/15] ARM: davinci: remove unneeded mach/io.h include Rob Herring
2012-02-13 21:43 ` [PATCH 09/15] ARM: orion5x: clean-up mach/io.h Rob Herring
2012-02-13 21:43 ` [PATCH 10/15] ARM: tegra: " Rob Herring
2012-02-13 21:43 ` [PATCH 11/15] ARM: ep93xx: " Rob Herring
2012-02-13 21:52   ` Ryan Mallon
2012-02-13 22:15     ` Rob Herring
2012-02-13 22:16   ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-02-27 15:17   ` [PATCH] " Rob Herring
2012-02-13 21:43 ` [PATCH 12/15] ARM: clps711x: remove unneeded include of mach/io.h Rob Herring
2012-02-13 21:43 ` [PATCH 13/15] ARM: make mach/io.h include optional Rob Herring
2012-02-13 22:14   ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-02-13 22:36   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-13 22:55     ` Rob Herring
2012-02-14  2:03     ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-02-14  2:54       ` Rob Herring
2012-02-14  8:04         ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-02-14 14:36           ` Rob Herring
2012-02-14 17:16             ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-02-14 17:40               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-14 18:12                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-02-14 23:09                 ` Rob Herring
2012-02-14 23:43                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-15  0:25                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-02-15 14:14                       ` Rob Herring
2012-02-15  0:57                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-02-27 19:31               ` Rob Herring
2012-02-28 16:10                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-02-27 22:31           ` Rob Herring
2012-02-28 16:32             ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-02-13 23:15   ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-02-14  1:06     ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-02-14 17:38       ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-02-14 18:20         ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2012-02-13 21:43 ` [PATCH 14/15] ARM: remove bunch of now unused mach/io.h files Rob Herring
2012-02-13 22:16   ` H Hartley Sweeten
2012-02-16  0:19   ` Shawn Guo
2012-02-16 18:57   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-13 21:43 ` [PATCH 15/15] ARM: kill off __mem_pci Rob Herring
2012-02-13 22:22 ` [PATCH 00/15] mach/io.h cleanup and removal Tony Lindgren
2012-02-13 23:56   ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-14  3:09   ` Rob Herring
2012-02-13 23:41 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-14  3:20   ` Rob Herring
2012-02-14 17:24     ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-14 17:57       ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-02-14 18:28         ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-02-14 19:41         ` Rob Herring
2012-02-14 20:43           ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-14 21:26             ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-02-14 21:54               ` Rob Herring
2012-02-14 22:38                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-02-21 22:47 ` Stephen Warren

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