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Date:   Wed, 27 Apr 2022 10:48:07 +0200
From:   'Greg Kroah-Hartman' <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc:     Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] staging: vt6655: Replace VNSvInPortD with ioread32
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 08:01:46AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > Sent: 27 April 2022 06:55
> > 
> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 07:42:23AM +0200, Philipp Hortmann wrote:
> > > Replace macro VNSvInPortD with ioread32 and as it was
> > > the only user, it can now be removed.
> > > The name of macro and the arguments use CamelCase which
> > > is not accepted by checkpatch.pl
> > >
> > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > > V1 -> V2: This patch was 5/7 and is now 4/6
> > > V2 -> V3: Inserted patch that was before in a different way in
> > >           "Rename macros VNSvInPortB,W,D with CamelCase ..."
> > >           This patch was part of 4/6 and is now 3/7
> > > V3 -> V4: Removed casting of the output variable
> > > V4 -> V5: Joint patch "Replace two VNSvInPortD with ioread64_lo_hi"
> > >           with this patch. Changed ioread64 to two ioread32 as
> > >           ioread64 does not work with 32 Bit computers.
> > >           Shorted and simplified patch description.
> > > V5 -> V6: Added missing version in subject
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/staging/vt6655/card.c        |  6 ++++--
> > >  drivers/staging/vt6655/device_main.c |  6 +++---
> > >  drivers/staging/vt6655/mac.h         | 18 +++++++++---------
> > >  drivers/staging/vt6655/rf.c          |  2 +-
> > >  drivers/staging/vt6655/upc.h         |  3 ---
> > >  5 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6655/card.c b/drivers/staging/vt6655/card.c
> > > index 022310af5485..0dd13e475d6b 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/staging/vt6655/card.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/staging/vt6655/card.c
> > > @@ -744,6 +744,7 @@ bool CARDbGetCurrentTSF(struct vnt_private *priv, u64 *pqwCurrTSF)
> > >  	void __iomem *iobase = priv->port_offset;
> > >  	unsigned short ww;
> > >  	unsigned char data;
> > > +	u32 low, high;
> > >
> > >  	MACvRegBitsOn(iobase, MAC_REG_TFTCTL, TFTCTL_TSFCNTRRD);
> > >  	for (ww = 0; ww < W_MAX_TIMEOUT; ww++) {
> > > @@ -753,8 +754,9 @@ bool CARDbGetCurrentTSF(struct vnt_private *priv, u64 *pqwCurrTSF)
> > >  	}
> > >  	if (ww == W_MAX_TIMEOUT)
> > >  		return false;
> > > -	VNSvInPortD(iobase + MAC_REG_TSFCNTR, (u32 *)pqwCurrTSF);
> > > -	VNSvInPortD(iobase + MAC_REG_TSFCNTR + 4, (u32 *)pqwCurrTSF + 1);
> > > +	low = ioread32(iobase + MAC_REG_TSFCNTR);
> > > +	high = ioread32(iobase + MAC_REG_TSFCNTR + 4);
> > > +	*pqwCurrTSF = low + ((u64)high << 32);
> > 
> > Are you _sure_ this is doing the same thing?
> > 
> > Adding 1 to a u64 pointer increments it by a full u64.  So I guess the
> > cast to u32 * moves it only by a u32?  Hopefully?  That's messy.
> 
> The new code is mostly better.
> But is different on BE systems - who knows what is actually needed.

Yeah, the endian issues here are totally ignored, my proposal would
ensure it stays the same.  The change here breaks this on big endian
systems.  So I'll drop this patch for now and just apply the first 2.

> Depends what is being copied.
> 
> Actually I suspect that 'iobase' should be an __iomem structure
> pointer, pqwCurrTSF a point of the same type and MAC_REG_xxxx
> structure members.
> 
> Then the code should be using readl() not ioread32().
> I very much doubt that 'iobase' is in PCI IO space.

Who knows, but that should be unwound eventually...

thanks,

greg k-h