Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] mtd: rawnand: Add NAND controller support on Intel LGM SoC

["Ramuthevar, Vadivel MuruganX" <vadivel.muruganx.ramuthevar@linux.intel.com>]

Hi Arnd, Andy,

On 15/5/2020 10:30 pm, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 4:25 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 4:48 PM kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>> sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)
>>>
>>>>> drivers/mtd/nand/raw/intel-nand-controller.c:441:24: sparse: sparse: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types) @@    expected unsigned int val @@    got restricted __be32 [assignedunsigned int val @@
>>>>> drivers/mtd/nand/raw/intel-nand-controller.c:441:24: sparse:    expected unsigned int val
>>>>> drivers/mtd/nand/raw/intel-nand-controller.c:441:24: sparse:    got restricted __be32 [assigned] [usertype] reg
>>>     drivers/mtd/nand/raw/intel-nand-controller.c:444:24: sparse: sparse: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types) @@    expected unsigned int val @@    got restricted __be32 [assignedunsigned int val @@
>>>     drivers/mtd/nand/raw/intel-nand-controller.c:444:24: sparse:    expected unsigned int val
>>>     drivers/mtd/nand/raw/intel-nand-controller.c:444:24: sparse:    got restricted __be32 [assigned] [usertype] reg
>>>
>>>     440                  reg = cpu_to_be32(*pdata++);
>>>   > 441                  writel(reg, ebu_host->hsnand + HSNAND_CMSG_0);
>>>     442
>>>     443                  reg = cpu_to_be32(*pdata);
>>>     444                  writel(reg, ebu_host->hsnand + HSNAND_CMSG_1);
>>
>> On BE:
>> cpu_to_be32 -> no-op
>> writel() -> converts reg to LE
>>
>> On LE:
>> cpu_to_be32 -> converts to BE
>> writel() -> no-op (in terms of conversion)
>>
>> Seems to me that the proper API (if above is intended) should be swab32().
>> But something tells me that above is broken (or my understanding is wrong).
> 
> iowrite_be32() is the correct way to store word into a big-endian mmio register,
> if that is the intention here.
Thank you for suggestions to use iowrite32be(), it suits exactly.

Regards
Vadivel

> 
>        Arnd
>