From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Arnd Bergmann' <arnd@arndb.de>, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>,
Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@google.com>,
Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>, Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Subject: RE: [Question] Alignment requirement for readX() and writeX()
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 08:37:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7353d0d46f9f4a908b73ac0ff1c070fc@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a0w09Ga_OXAqhA0JcgR-LBc32a296dZhpTyPDwVSgaNkw@mail.gmail.com>
From: Arnd Bergmann
> Sent: 30 July 2021 17:59
...
> I am not aware of any driver that requires unaligned access on __iomem
> pointers, and since it definitely doesn't work on most architectures, ...
Unaligned accesses into PCIe space can generate a TLP that requests
only some bytes of the first and last 32bit words be transferred.
The target is expected to honour such requests.
On the x86 systems where I've looked at a TLP trace misaligned
accesses are even atomic provided the target doesn't let a local
request interleave.
OTOH drivers are unlikely to make such requests.
David
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-30 16:42 [Question] Alignment requirement for readX() and writeX() Boqun Feng
2021-07-30 16:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-07-30 17:30 ` Boqun Feng
2021-07-30 20:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-07-31 1:51 ` Boqun Feng
2021-08-02 8:37 ` David Laight [this message]
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