Re: [PATCH v2] drm/msm: Use nvmem_cell_read_variable_le_u32() to read speed bin

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Quoting Doug Anderson (2021-05-21 15:35:33)
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 3:02 PM Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Quoting Douglas Anderson (2021-05-21 13:45:50)
> > > Let's use the newly-added nvmem_cell_read_variable_le_u32() to future
> > > proof ourselves a little bit.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > The patch that this depends on is now in mainline so it can be merged
> > > at will. I'm just sending this as a singleton patch to make it obvious
> > > that there are no dependencies now.
> > >
> > > Changes in v2:
> > > - Rebased
> > >
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gpu.c | 5 ++---
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gpu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gpu.c
> > > index b4d8e1b01ee4..a07214157ad3 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gpu.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gpu.c
> > > @@ -1403,10 +1403,10 @@ static int a6xx_set_supported_hw(struct device *dev, struct a6xx_gpu *a6xx_gpu,
> > >  {
> > >         struct opp_table *opp_table;
> > >         u32 supp_hw = UINT_MAX;
> > > -       u16 speedbin;
> > > +       u32 speedbin;
> > >         int ret;
> > >
> > > -       ret = nvmem_cell_read_u16(dev, "speed_bin", &speedbin);
> > > +       ret = nvmem_cell_read_variable_le_u32(dev, "speed_bin", &speedbin);
> >
> > I missed the review of this API, sorry.
>
> You commented on the patch that added it, though? Oddly I can't find
> your commit on lore.kernel.org (?), but it's in my inbox...

Must be brain fog on my end!

>
>
> > I wonder why it doesn't return
> > the value into an __le32 pointer. Then the caller could use
> > le32_to_cpu() like other places in the kernel and we know that code is
> > properly converting the little endian value to CPU native order. Right
> > now the API doesn't express the endianess of the bits in the return
> > value because it uses u32, so from a static checker perspective (sparse)
> > those bits are CPU native order, not little endian.
>
> I think it's backwards of what you're saying? This function is for
> when the value is stored in nvram in little endian but returned to the
> caller in CPU native order. It would be really awkward _not_ to
> convert this value from LE to native order in the
> nvmem_cell_read_variable_le_u32() function because that functions
> handles the fact that the cell could be specified as several different
> sizes (as long as it's less than 32-bits).
>

Ah ok. I was looking at the name of the API and thinking it was an le32;
happily glossing over that _u between le and 32. So it's "nvmem cell read
variable little endian to cpu u32"?

Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



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