Re: [PATCH 0/6] Fix sparse warnings for common qe library code

[Rasmus Villemoes]

On 12/03/2020 23.28, Li Yang wrote:
> The QE code was previously only supported on big-endian PowerPC systems
> that use the same endian as the QE device.  The endian transfer code is
> not really exercised.  Recent updates extended the QE drivers to
> little-endian ARM/ARM64 systems which makes the endian transfer really
> meaningful and hence triggered more sparse warnings for the endian
> mismatch.  Some of these endian issues are real issues that need to be
> fixed.
> 
> While at it, fixed some direct de-references of IO memory space and
> suppressed other __iomem address space mismatch issues by adding correct
> address space attributes.
> 
> Li Yang (6):
>   soc: fsl: qe: fix sparse warnings for qe.c
>   soc: fsl: qe: fix sparse warning for qe_common.c
>   soc: fsl: qe: fix sparse warnings for ucc.c
>   soc: fsl: qe: fix sparse warnings for qe_ic.c
>   soc: fsl: qe: fix sparse warnings for ucc_fast.c
>   soc: fsl: qe: fix sparse warnings for ucc_slow.c

Patches 2-5 should not change the generated code, whether LE or BE host,
as they merely add sparse annotations (please double-check with objdump
that that is indeed the case), so for those you may add

Reviewed-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I think patch 1 is also correct, but I don't have hardware to test it on
ATM. I'd like to see patch 6 split into smaller pieces, most of it seems
obviously correct.

Rasmus