Re: Removal of ____raw_readq() and ____raw_writeq() from asm-mips/io.h

[Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 05:58:31PM -0800, Kevin Paul Herbert wrote:
> In edit 1.68, the non-interrupt locking versions of
> raw_readq()/raw_writeq() were removed, in favor of locking ones. While
> this makes sense in general, it breaks the compilation of the sb1250
> which uses the non-locking versions (____raw_readq() and
> ____raw_writeq()) in interrupt handlers.
Why was someone using these function at all? if you don't need locking
simply do *reg_addr = val; 
> Personally, I think that it is very confusing to have so many similar
> macros with similar names and increasing numbers of underscores, so I
> don't really have a problem with this. I've modified
> arch/mips/sibyte/sb1250/time.c and arch/mips/sibyte/sb1250/irq.c to use
> the __ versions and have a few more instructions of overhead.
__ versions wasn't probably intended to use in C code. One should use
readq/writeq to get sane behaviour. These function was introduced to
hide architecture specific details. If you need something special, you
should introduce your own macros.
> My question is whether this removal was intended or not, or whether
> there are some other changes to the handlers in the sb1250-specific code
> that got dropped somewhere.
Yes it was. And I'm the one to blame for it ;)
> If the consensus is that the ____ versions really should perish for the
> sake of simplicity, I'll send my simple patches to the list to fix the
> sb1250 build.
Yes please.

	ladis