Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932977AbaJXRyO (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:54:14 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-f49.google.com ([209.85.218.49]:54236 "EHLO mail-oi0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932624AbaJXRyM (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:54:12 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20141024161634.GG20534@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> References: <1413993983-17310-1-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> <20141022164454.GI15370@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20141024092832.GD20534@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20141024161634.GG20534@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:54:12 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: supplementing IO accessors with 64 bit capability From: Mathieu Poirier To: Catalin Marinas Cc: "linux@arm.linux.org.uk" , "stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com" , "ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com" , Liviu Dudau , "thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 24 October 2014 10:16, Catalin Marinas wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 04:05:13PM +0100, Mathieu Poirier wrote: >> On 24 October 2014 03:28, Catalin Marinas wrote: >> > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 08:10:27PM +0100, Mathieu Poirier wrote: >> >> On 22 October 2014 18:44, Catalin Marinas wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 05:06:23PM +0100, mathieu.poirier@linaro.org wrote: >> >> >> +static inline void __raw_writeq(u64 val, volatile void __iomem *addr) >> >> >> +{ >> >> >> + asm volatile("strd %1, %0" >> >> >> + : "+Qo" (*(volatile u64 __force *)addr) >> >> >> + : "r" (val)); >> >> >> +} >> >> >> + >> >> >> +static inline u64 __raw_readq(const volatile void __iomem *addr) >> >> >> +{ >> >> >> + u64 val; >> >> >> + asm volatile("ldrd %1, %0" >> >> >> + : "+Qo" (*(volatile u64 __force *)addr), >> >> >> + "=r" (val)); >> >> >> + return val; >> >> >> +} >> >> >> +#endif >> >> > >> >> > I'm curious why you need these. Do you have a device that needs a 64-bit >> >> > single access or you are trying to read two consecutive registers? >> >> >> >> The fundamental data size of Coresight STM32 for ARMv7 is >> >> implementation defined and can be 32 or 64bit. As such stimulus ports >> >> can support transaction sizes of up to 64 bit. >> > >> > The STM programmer's model spec recommends something else (though I find >> > the "3.6 Data sizes" chapter a bit confusing): >> > >> > To ensure that code is portable between processor micro-architectures >> > and system implementations, ARM recommends that only the native data >> > size of the machine is used, and smaller sizes. For the 32-bit ARMv7 >> > architecture, only 8, 16, and 32-bit transfers are recommended. For an >> > ARMv8 processor that supports the AArch64 Execution state, it is >> > recommended that the fundamental data size of 64-bits is implemented. >> > >> > Which means that you should not use readq/writeq on a 32-bit system. >> >> Not quite. ARM documentation IHI0054B (ARM System Trace Macrocell: >> Programmers' Model Architecture Specification) stipulate that "For >> systems with an ARMv7 processor, ARM recommends configuration 1 or >> configuration 2.", where configuration 2 has a fundamental size of 64 >> bit. > > As I said, it's confusing. Anyway, you can go ahead and add the > readq/writeq for ARMv6 and later, though it won't be guaranteed to have > a 64-bit access, it depends on the bus. Agreed. > > BTW, do you need to define the non-relaxed accessors as well? That would > be readq/writeq. No other master in the system is consuming this data and the channels return '0' on read. As such I didn't plan on implementing the non-relaxed accessors. Would you like me to do so for completeness? > > -- > Catalin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/