Re: [PATCH v13 01/10] iomap: Use correct endian conversion function in mmio_writeXXbe

From: Luc Van Oostenryck
Date: Wed Mar 21 2018 - 13:28:56 EST


On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:37:36AM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> The semantics of the iowriteXXbe() functions are to write a
> value in CPU endianess to an IO register that is known by the
> caller to be in Big Endian. The mmio_writeXXbe() macro, which
> is called by iowriteXXbe(), should therefore use cpu_to_beXX()
> instead of beXX_to_cpu().
>
> Seeing both beXX_to_cpu() and cpu_to_beXX() are both functionally
> implemented as either null operations or swabXX operations there
> was no noticable bug here. But it is confusing for both developers
> and code analysis tools alike.
>
> Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> lib/iomap.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/iomap.c b/lib/iomap.c
> index 541d926da95e..be120c13d6cc 100644
> --- a/lib/iomap.c
> +++ b/lib/iomap.c
> @@ -106,8 +106,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ioread32be);
> #endif
>
> #ifndef mmio_write16be
> -#define mmio_write16be(val,port) __raw_writew(be16_to_cpu(val),port)
> -#define mmio_write32be(val,port) __raw_writel(be32_to_cpu(val),port)
> +#define mmio_write16be(val,port) __raw_writew(cpu_to_be16(val),port)
> +#define mmio_write32be(val,port) __raw_writel(cpu_to_be32(val),port)
> #endif
>
> void iowrite8(u8 val, void __iomem *addr)
> --
> 2.11.0
>

LGTM, feel free to add my
Reviewed-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx>

-- Luc