Re: [PATCH 3/7] usb: gadget: pxa25x_udc: use readl/writel for mmio

[Krzysztof HaÅasa]

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes:

>> Anyway, I think readl()/writel() do the right thing: in BE mode they
>> swap PCI accesses and don't swap normal registers, in LE mode nothing is
>> swapped.
>
> This seems to be true when CONFIG_IXP4XX_INDIRECT_PCI is set, but
> not otherwise. For the indirect variant, writel() is a __raw_writel()
> without barrier or byteswap on non-PCI memory, while with that
> option disabled, we use the standard implementation that has both
> a byteswap and a barrier.
>
> According to your description, that would mean the version without
> indirect PCI access is broken and it appears to have been that way
> since before the start of git history in 2.6.12.
>
> It's possible that nobody cared because all drivers for non-PCI
> devices on ixp4xx (the on chip ones) just use __raw_readl or
> direct pointer references.

Well, it is possible. I recall I probably used __raw_* instead of
readl()/writel() in qmgr/npe/Ethernet drivers for this very reason.

I think Direct pointer references are only used for locations in RAM
(DMA buffers), they have their own share of problems because the
peripherals are always big endian.

I think I still have an early IXP425 board with UDC connector so I will
try to dig it up and test this code.

I wonder if we should switch the driver to use __raw_*, too. The problem
is almost nobody uses UDC with this CPU.
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Krzysztof Halasa

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