RE: [PATCH 01/12] usb: chipidea: udc: use {read,write}l to handle mapped data

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> From: Peter Chen <peter.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 7:58 PM
> 
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 02:20:23PM +0100, Michael Grzeschik wrote:
> > The udc uses an shared dma memory space between hard and software. This
> > memory layout is described in ci13xxx_qh and ci13xxx_td which are marked
> > with the attribute ((packed)).
> >
> > The packed attribute leads the compiler to generate one byte operations
> > for addressing the mapped memory as it believes this memory has no
> > alignement issues as common streaming data. This appeares on armv5
> > machines where the hardware does not support unaligned 32bit operations.
> > Compilers for newer ARMs will probably still generate 32bit operations,
> > as the hardware supports it.
> >
> > The Datasheet of the synopsys core describes, that some operations on
> > the mapped memory need to be atomic double word operations. I.e. the
> > next pointer addressing in the qhead, as otherwise the hardware could
> > read wrong data and totally stuck.
> >
> > This patch fixes that issue by addressing every mapped area operation
> > with explicit readl and writel operations where needed. It also adds an
> > wmb() for the prepared TD data before it gets enqueued into the qhead.
> 
> The writel includes wmb(), the wmb() isn't needed if the last instruction
> is writel.
> 
> Besides, please make sure all dQH/dTD mapped area access by readl/writel in
> this patch, we don't want to add missing in future.

Is 'sparse' happy with this? AFAIR it will complain if you use readl/writel
on memory that is not marked with __iomem.

Is removing the __attribute__ ((packed)) annotation not enough to fix the
problem?

-- 
Paul

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