On Monday 09 May 2016 13:39:50 Felipe Balbi wrote: > Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > On Monday 09 May 2016 10:23:22 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >> On Sun, 2016-05-08 at 13:44 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote: > > > > The patch that caused the problem had multiple issues: > > > > - it broke big-endian ARM kernels: any machine that was working > > correctly with a little-endian kernel is no longer using byteswaps > > on big-endian kernels, which clearly breaks them. > > - On PowerPC the same thing must be true: if it was working before, > > using big-endian kernels is now broken. Unlike ARM, 32-bit PowerPC > > usually uses big-endian kernels, so they are likely all broken. > > - The barrier for dwc2_writel is on the wrong side of the __raw_writel(), > > so the MMIO no longer synchronizes with DMA operations. > > - On architectures that require specific CPU instructions for MMIO > > access, using the __raw_ variant may turn this into a pointer > > dereference that does not have the same effect as the readl/writel. > > > > I think we can simply make this set of accessors architecture-dependent > > (MIPS vs. the rest of the world) to revert ARM and PowerPC back to > > the working version. > > and patch all drivers similarly? Shouldn't arch/mips itself deal with it > and hide it from drivers ? > Unfortunately, I don't see any way this could be done in MIPS specific code: There is typically a byteswap between the internal bus and the PCI bus on big-endian MIPS systems, so the PCI MMIO ends up being little-endian, which matches the expected behavior of readl/writel. However, drivers for non-PCI devices often use the same readl/writel accessors because that is how it's done on ARMv6/ARMv7. Doing it hardcoded by architecture is just the simplest way to deal with it, working on the assumption that nothing actually needs the runtime detection that Ben suggested. Detecting the endianess of the device is probably the best future-proof solution, but it's also considerably more work to do in the driver, and comes with a tiny runtime overhead. Arnd
