Re: [RFC 13/13] scsi: megaraid: Make use of dev_64bit_mmio_supported()

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 3:30 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 3:03 PM Nicolas Saenz Julienne
> <nsaenzjulienne@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >         unsigned long flags;
> > -       spin_lock_irqsave(&instance->hba_lock, flags);
> > -       writel(le32_to_cpu(req_desc->u.low),
> > -               &instance->reg_set->inbound_low_queue_port);
> > -       writel(le32_to_cpu(req_desc->u.high),
> > -               &instance->reg_set->inbound_high_queue_port);
> > -       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&instance->hba_lock, flags);
>
> > +
> > +       if (dev_64bit_mmio_supported(&instance->pdev->dev)) {
> > +               writeq(req_data, &instance->reg_set->inbound_low_queue_port);
> > +       } else {
> > +               spin_lock_irqsave(&instance->hba_lock, flags);
> > +               lo_hi_writeq(req_data, &instance->reg_set->inbound_low_queue_port);
> > +               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&instance->hba_lock, flags);
> > +       }
>
> I see your patch changes the code to the lo_hi_writeq() accessor,
> and it also fixes the endianness bug (double byteswap on big-endian),
> but it does not fix the spinlock bug (writel on pci leaks out of the lock
> unless it's followed by a read).

On second look, it seems your patch breaks the byteorder logic,
rather than fixing it. It would seem better to leave it unchanged
then, or to send a separate rework of the endianness conversion if
you think it is wrong.

       Arnd