On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 06:30:39PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > Continuing on from the previous set of 18 patches, I also fixed a > number of sparse problems and other cleanups. I don't deem these > suitable for -rc merging, especially now that we're basically at > -rc6. > > The first patch switches the driver over to appropriately using > the relaxed IO accessors - this avoids calling out to the heavy > barrier on every read and write operation, but only calling out on > those which really matter. > > We switch to using dma_addr_t for DMA addresses which are not accessed > by hardware, and using gfp_t for the get_free_page flags. String-based > MMIO accesses are used instead of plain memcpy()/memset() which prevents > us potentially stumbling over GCC optimisations that it thinks it may > make with these functions. > > We convert as much of the hardware state to __le32 endian markings, > and use cpu_to_le32() as appropriate. A number of places are left > unfixed, as we temporarily store CPU native endian values at these > locations; these warnings should not be fixed (basically, only > appropriate sparse warnings should be fixed without penalising code.) All applied. Thanks. -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
