Re: [PATCH v2] hwmon: xgene: access mailbox as RAM

[Guenter Roeck]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 10:10:45PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The newly added hwmon driver fails to build in an allmodconfig
> kernel:
> 
>       ERROR: "memblock_is_memory" [drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.ko] undefined!
> 
> According to comments in the code, the mailbox is a shared memory region,
> not a set of MMIO registers, so we should use memremap() for mapping it
> instead of ioremap or acpi_os_ioremap, and pointer dereferences instead
> of readl/writel.
> 
> The driver already uses plain kernel pointers, so it's a bit unusual
> to work with functions that operate on __iomem pointers, and this
> fixes that part too.
> 
> I'm using READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE here to keep the existing behavior
> regarding the ordering of the accesses from the CPU, but note that
> there are no barriers (also unchanged from before).
> 
> I'm also keeping the endianess behavior, though I'm unsure whether
> the message data was supposed to be in LE32 format in the first
> place, it's possible this was meant to be interpreted as a byte
> stream instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Applied after 's/endianess/endianness/' to make checkpatch happy.

Thanks,
Guenter