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

[Krzysztof HaÅasa]

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Both writes leave the CPU core within the spinlock but are not serialized
> with anything else, so there is no ordering between the CPUs when they
> enter the shared bus, other than having address before data. You'd
> expect to see address0, data0, address1, data1, but it could also
> be e.g. address0, address1, data1, data0.

Ah, so it's a matter of flushing the write buffers before exiting the
spinlock-protected code.

> The point is more what the common case is. Almost all machines we support
> have fixed-endian devices, and the drivers are correct when using readl()
> or in_le32() but are not endian-safe when using __raw_readl().

Sure, e.g. PCI does it this way (eventually swapping the data lanes if
needed).

> Using __raw_readl() has the big danger of someone accidentally "fixing"
> the driver to work like all the others in order to solve a theoretical
> endian problem, while it should really be made obvious that the hardware
> actively swaps its data on the bus.

Sure - if this is the case. On-chip IXP4xx peripherals don't swap data
at all (i.e., they match CPU endianess) - accessing their registers is
like accessing a normal CPU register. That's why they don't use
PCI-style readl() etc. - however a better name than __raw_* would
probably help here.

Using __raw_* in a PCI driver would be generally wrong.
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Krzysztof Halasa

Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP
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