Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759205Ab1D0NSS (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:18:18 -0400 Received: from mail-pv0-f174.google.com ([74.125.83.174]:41057 "EHLO mail-pv0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755561Ab1D0NSQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:18:16 -0400 Message-ID: <5BAE2D6F9E6047C19B6BE8FF26F7270B@subhasishg> From: "Subhasish Ghosh" To: "Russell King - ARM Linux" , "Marc Kleine-Budde" Cc: , , "Samuel Ortiz" , , "open list" , , References: <1303474109-6212-1-git-send-email-subhasish@mistralsolutions.com> <1303474109-6212-2-git-send-email-subhasish@mistralsolutions.com> <4DB1A603.2090208@pengutronix.de> <4DB7C5F7.3080103@pengutronix.de> <20110427091252.GP17290@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110427091252.GP17290@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/11] mfd: add pruss mfd driver. Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:48:54 +0530 Organization: Mistral Solutions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1408 Lines: 38 My problem is, I am doing something like this: s32 pruss_writel_multi(struct device *dev, u32 offset, u32 *pdatatowrite, u16 wordstowrite) { struct pruss_priv *pruss = dev_get_drvdata(dev->parent); u32 __iomem *paddresstowrite; u16 i; paddresstowrite = pruss->ioaddr + offset; for (i = 0; i < wordstowrite; i++) iowrite32(*pdatatowrite++, paddresstowrite++); return 0; } So, if I make paddresstowrite as void, it will not work. The above implementation does not generate any sparse errors though. > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 09:29:59AM +0200, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote: >> On 04/27/2011 08:39 AM, Subhasish Ghosh wrote: >> > - Is it ok to have u32 etc for __iomem cookie ? >> >> no - "void __iomem *" is "void __iomem *" > > Actually, it is _provided_ you don't directly dereference it. You can > then do pointer arithmetic on it in the usual way - which is about the > only valid thing to do with an __iomem pointer. The voidness just acts > as an additional check against direct dereferences of this. > > The important thing though is that the code passes sparse checks. -- 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/