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From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades•com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>,
	linux-ppc-embedded <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add big endian version of ld_/st_ IO access macros and convert main 8xx code to use it
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 21:51:35 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050908005135.GA8882@dmt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1126139332.29803.0.camel@gaston>

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:28:52AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 20:03 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The following patch adds big endian version of ld_/st_ macros 
> > and converts core 8xx code to use them.
> > 
> > Other than making IO accesses explicit (which is a plus for
> > readability), a common set of macros provides a unified place for the
> > volatile flag to constraint compiler code reordering.
> > 
> > There are several unlucky places at the moment which lack the 
> > volatile flag.
> 
> I'm not fan of the approach. You should use in_/out_ macros for IOs. If
> you don't need eieio on 8xx , then just #ifdef it out of the
> implementation of these.

The reason for that is that in_/out_ are supposed to be the standard 
IO macros (conformance)? In practice most drivers using the std macros
can benefit from the change. 

A common routine is shared by all architectures. Doing something like

/*
 * 8, 16 and 32 bit, big and little endian I/O operations, with barrier.
 */
extern inline int in_8(volatile unsigned char __iomem *addr)
{
        int ret;

        __asm__ __volatile__(
                "lbz%U1%X1 %0,%1;\n"
#ifndef CONFIG_8xx
                "twi 0,%0,0;\n"
                "isync" : "=r" (ret) : "m" (*addr));
#else
                : "=r" (ret) : "m" (*addr));
#endif
        return ret;
}

Seems somewhat ugly?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-08  0:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-07 23:03 [PATCH] add big endian version of ld_/st_ IO access macros and convert main 8xx code to use it Marcelo Tosatti
2005-09-08  0:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-09-08  0:42   ` Dan Malek
2005-09-08  0:55     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-09-08  0:58     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-09-08  4:27       ` Paul Mackerras
2005-09-08 13:56         ` Dan Malek
2005-09-08 19:34         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-09-08  0:51   ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2005-09-08  1:14     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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