The patch titled Subject: asm-generic: io: don't perform swab during {in,out} string functions has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is asm-generic-io-dont-perform-swab-during-inout-string-functions.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Subject: asm-generic: io: don't perform swab during {in,out} string functions The {in,out}s{b,w,l} functions are designed to operate on a stream of bytes and therefore should not perform any byte-swapping, regardless of the CPU byte order. This patch fixes the generic IO header so that {in,out}s{b,w,l} call the __raw_{read,write} functions directly rather than going via the endian-correcting accessors. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/asm-generic/io.h | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN include/asm-generic/io.h~asm-generic-io-dont-perform-swab-during-inout-string-functions include/asm-generic/io.h --- a/include/asm-generic/io.h~asm-generic-io-dont-perform-swab-during-inout-string-functions +++ a/include/asm-generic/io.h @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ static inline void insb(unsigned long ad if (count) { u8 *buf = buffer; do { - u8 x = inb(addr); + u8 x = __raw_readb(addr + PCI_IOBASE); *buf++ = x; } while (--count); } @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static inline void insw(unsigned long ad if (count) { u16 *buf = buffer; do { - u16 x = inw(addr); + u16 x = __raw_readw(addr + PCI_IOBASE); *buf++ = x; } while (--count); } @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ static inline void insl(unsigned long ad if (count) { u32 *buf = buffer; do { - u32 x = inl(addr); + u32 x = __raw_readl(addr + PCI_IOBASE); *buf++ = x; } while (--count); } @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ static inline void outsb(unsigned long a if (count) { const u8 *buf = buffer; do { - outb(*buf++, addr); + __raw_writeb(*buf++, addr + PCI_IOBASE); } while (--count); } } @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static inline void outsw(unsigned long a if (count) { const u16 *buf = buffer; do { - outw(*buf++, addr); + __raw_writew(*buf++, addr + PCI_IOBASE); } while (--count); } } @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ static inline void outsl(unsigned long a if (count) { const u32 *buf = buffer; do { - outl(*buf++, addr); + __raw_writel(*buf++, addr + PCI_IOBASE); } while (--count); } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from will.deacon@xxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch asm-generic-io-dont-perform-swab-during-inout-string-functions.patch mtd-nand-gpio-use-ioreadwrite_rep-accessors.patch musb-tusb6010-use-ioreadwrite_rep-accessors.patch usb-musb-use-ioreadwrite_rep-accessors.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html