From: Hans de Goede > Sent: 10 February 2023 19:33 > > Hi, > > On 2/10/23 20:09, Hans de Goede wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 2/10/23 05:48, Orlando Chamberlain wrote: > >> Currently it manually flips the byte order, but we can instead use > >> cpu_to_be32(val) for this. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Orlando Chamberlain <orlandoch.dev@xxxxxxxxx> > >> --- > >> drivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c | 18 ++---------------- > >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) > >> > >> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c b/drivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c > >> index 9333f82cfa8a..e8cb084cb81f 100644 > >> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c > >> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/apple-gmux.c > >> @@ -94,13 +94,7 @@ static u32 gmux_pio_read32(struct apple_gmux_data *gmux_data, int port) > >> static void gmux_pio_write32(struct apple_gmux_data *gmux_data, int port, > >> u32 val) > >> { > >> - int i; > >> - u8 tmpval; > >> - > >> - for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) { > >> - tmpval = (val >> (i * 8)) & 0xff; > >> - outb(tmpval, gmux_data->iostart + port + i); > >> - } > >> + outl(cpu_to_be32(val), gmux_data->iostart + port); > >> } > >> > >> static int gmux_index_wait_ready(struct apple_gmux_data *gmux_data) > > > > The ioport / indexed-ioport accessed apple_gmux-es likely are (part of?) > > LPC bus devices . Looking at the bus level you are now changing 4 io > > accesses with a size of 1 byte, to 1 32 bit io-access. > > Correction to myself, re-reading the LPC specification, then > if I'm right and this is a LPC device then all IO in/out accesses > are always 1 byte accesses. Since the LPC bus only supports 16 / 32 > bit accesses for DMA cycles. > > So presumably the outl() would get split into 4 separate 8 bit > (port) IO accesses. I wonder if there is something obscure and the order of the 4 bytes writes matters? In any case writing as: xxxx iostart = gmux_data->iostart + port; outb(val, iostart); outb(val >> 8, iostart + 1); outb(val >> 16, iostart + 2); outb(val >> 24, ioctart + 3); almost certainly generates better code. David - Registered Address Lakeside, Bramley Road, Mount Farm, Milton Keynes, MK1 1PT, UK Registration No: 1397386 (Wales)