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Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: lpfc: use memcpy_toio instead of writeq
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@broadcom.com>,
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About to post a patch to fix. Rather than fidgeting with the copy 
routine, I want to go back to what we originally proposed - writeq() on 
64bit, writel() on 32-bit.

-- james


On 2/23/2018 1:02 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 4:36 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>> @@ -138,12 +137,10 @@ lpfc_sli4_wq_put(struct lpfc_queue *q, union lpfc_wqe *wqe)
>>          if (q->phba->sli3_options & LPFC_SLI4_PHWQ_ENABLED)
>>                  bf_set(wqe_wqid, &wqe->generic.wqe_com, q->queue_id);
>>          lpfc_sli_pcimem_bcopy(wqe, temp_wqe, q->entry_size);
>> -       if (q->dpp_enable && q->phba->cfg_enable_dpp) {
>> +       if (q->dpp_enable && q->phba->cfg_enable_dpp)
>>                  /* write to DPP aperture taking advatage of Combined Writes */
>> -               tmp = (uint8_t *)wqe;
>> -               for (i = 0; i < q->entry_size; i += sizeof(uint64_t))
>> -                       writeq(*((uint64_t *)(tmp + i)), q->dpp_regaddr + i);
>> -       }
>> +               memcpy_toio(tmp, q->dpp_regaddr, q->entry_size);
>> +
>>          /* ensure WQE bcopy and DPP flushed before doorbell write */
>>          wmb();
>>
> Not sure where we are with the question of whether memcpy_toio
> is a good replacement or not, but further build testing showed that
> my patch was completely broken in more than one way:
>
> I mixed up the source and destination arguments, and I used
> the uninitialized 'tmp' instead of 'wqe'. Don't try this patch.
>
>         Arnd