Re: [PATCH 3/5] tty/8250_dw: Add support for OCTEON UARTS.

[David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>]

On 06/19/2013 03:01 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 June 2013 12:12:53 David Daney wrote:
>> +static unsigned int dw8250_serial_inq(struct uart_port *p, int offset)
>> +{
>> +       offset <<= p->regshift;
>> +
>> +       return (u8)__raw_readq(p->membase + offset);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void dw8250_serial_outq(struct uart_port *p, int offset, int value)
>> +{
>> +       struct dw8250_data *d = p->private_data;
>> +
>> +       if (offset == UART_LCR)
>> +               d->last_lcr = value;
>> +
>> +       offset <<= p->regshift;
>> +       __raw_writeq(value, p->membase + offset);
>> +       dw8250_serial_inq(p, UART_LCR);
>> +}
>
> This breaks building on 32 bit architectures as I found on my daily ARM
> builds: __raw_writeq cannot be defined on architectures that don't have
> native 64 bit data access instructions.

I will rework the patch to avoid this problem.


> It's also wrong to use the
> __raw_* variant, which is not guaranteed to be atomic and is not
> endian-safe.

We do runtime probing and only use this function on platforms where it 
is appropriate, so atomicity is not an issue.  As for endianess, I used 
the __raw_ variant precisely because it is correct for both big and 
little endian kernels.

David Daney