On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2014 19:17:58 Kevin Cernekee wrote: > > static LIST_HEAD(gc_list); > > static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(gc_lock); > > > > +static int is_big_endian(struct irq_chip_generic *gc) > > +{ > > + return !!(gc->domain->gc->gc_flags & IRQ_GC_BE_IO); > > +} > > + > > static void irq_reg_writel(struct irq_chip_generic *gc, > > u32 val, int reg_offset) > > { > > - writel(val, gc->reg_base + reg_offset); > > + if (is_big_endian(gc)) > > + iowrite32be(val, gc->reg_base + reg_offset); > > + else > > + writel(val, gc->reg_base + reg_offset); > > } > > > > What I had in mind was to use indirect function calls instead, like > > #ifndef irq_reg_writel > static inline void irq_reg_writel_le(u32 val, void __iomem *addr) > { > return writel(val, addr); > } > #endif > > #ifndef irq_reg_writel_be > static inline void irq_reg_writel_be(u32 val, void __iomem *addr) > { > return iowrite32_be(val, addr); > } > #endif > > > static inline void irq_reg_writel(struct irq_chip_generic *gc, u32 val, int reg_offset) > { > if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_CHIP) && That's inside of the generic irq chip, so CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_CHIP is always set when this is compiled. > !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_CHIP_BE)) > return irq_reg_writel_le(val, gc->reg_base + reg_offset); > > if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_CHIP) && > !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_CHIP_BE)) s/!// ? > return irq_reg_writel_be(val, gc->reg_base + reg_offset); I don't think the above will cover all combinations. ..._CHIP_BE ...CHIP_LE N N ; Default behaviour: readl/writel Y N ; ioread/write32be N Y ; Default behaviour: readl/writel Y Y ; Runtime selected > return gc->writel(val, gc->reg_base + reg_offset); > } > > This would take the condition out of the callers. So you trade a conditional for an indirect call. Not sure what's more expensive. The indirect call is definitely a smaller text footprint, so we should opt for this. Thanks, tglx