Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] mtd: rawnand: Add NAND controller support on Intel LGM SoC

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 4:25 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 4:48 PM kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)
> >
> > >> drivers/mtd/nand/raw/intel-nand-controller.c:441:24: sparse: sparse: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types) @@    expected unsigned int val @@    got restricted __be32 [assignedunsigned int val @@
> > >> drivers/mtd/nand/raw/intel-nand-controller.c:441:24: sparse:    expected unsigned int val
> > >> drivers/mtd/nand/raw/intel-nand-controller.c:441:24: sparse:    got restricted __be32 [assigned] [usertype] reg
> >    drivers/mtd/nand/raw/intel-nand-controller.c:444:24: sparse: sparse: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types) @@    expected unsigned int val @@    got restricted __be32 [assignedunsigned int val @@
> >    drivers/mtd/nand/raw/intel-nand-controller.c:444:24: sparse:    expected unsigned int val
> >    drivers/mtd/nand/raw/intel-nand-controller.c:444:24: sparse:    got restricted __be32 [assigned] [usertype] reg
> >
> >    440                  reg = cpu_to_be32(*pdata++);
> >  > 441                  writel(reg, ebu_host->hsnand + HSNAND_CMSG_0);
> >    442
> >    443                  reg = cpu_to_be32(*pdata);
> >    444                  writel(reg, ebu_host->hsnand + HSNAND_CMSG_1);
>
> On BE:
> cpu_to_be32 -> no-op
> writel() -> converts reg to LE
>
> On LE:
> cpu_to_be32 -> converts to BE
> writel() -> no-op (in terms of conversion)
>
> Seems to me that the proper API (if above is intended) should be swab32().
> But something tells me that above is broken (or my understanding is wrong).

iowrite_be32() is the correct way to store word into a big-endian mmio register,
if that is the intention here.

      Arnd