RE: [PATCH V7 2/4] asm-generic/io.h: Add big-endian MMIO accessors

Guntupalli, Manikanta
2025-09-24T10:12:36Z

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Hi,

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> Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 2/4] asm-generic/io.h: Add big-endian MMIO accessors
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2025, at 10:59, Guntupalli, Manikanta wrote:
> >> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2025 12:08 AM
> >> To: Guntupalli, Manikanta <manikanta.guntupalli@amd.com>; git
> >> (AMD-Xilinx)
> >
> > From both description and implementation, {read,write}{b,w,l,q}()
> > access little-endian memory and return the result in native endianness:
> ...
> > This works on little-endian CPUs, but on big-endian CPUs the
> > {read,write}{b,w,l,q}() helpers already return data in big-endian
> > format.
>
> > The extra byte swap in io{read,write}*be() therefore corrupts the
> > data, producing little-endian values when big-endian is expected.
>
> > The newly introduced {read,write}{w,l,q}_be() helpers directly access
> > big-endian IO memory and return results in native endianness, avoiding
> > this mismatch.
>
> No, in both your {read,write}{w,l,q}_be() and the existing io{read,write}*be() helpers,
> big-endian platforms end up with an even number of swaps
> (0 or 2), while little-endian platforms have exactly one swap.
>
> The only exception is your {read,write}s{w,l,q}_be() string helpers that are wrong
> because they have an extra swap and are broken on FIFO registers in little-endian
> kernels.
We have performed our validation on little-endian kernels, and in our testing, the helpers worked correctly without any issues.

Thanks,
Manikanta.