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SubjectRE: [PATCH] ARC: io.h: Implement reads{x}()/writes{x}()
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From: Jose Abreu [mailto:jose.abreu@synopsys.com]
> On 29-11-2018 12:47, David Laight wrote:
> > From: Jose Abreu
> >> Sent: 29 November 2018 12:42
> >>
> >> Some ARC CPU's do not support unaligned loads/stores. Currently, generic
> >> implementation of reads{b/w/l}()/writes{b/w/l}() is being used with ARC.
> >> This can lead to misfunction of some drivers as generic functions do a
> >> plain dereference of a pointer that can be unaligned.
> >>
> >> Let's use {get/put}_unaligned() helper instead of plain dereference of
> >> pointer in order to fix this.
> > Is it worth adding a check for the pointer being aligned?
>
> We could but then we would need to know which CPU version is
> currently running because some ARC processors support unaligned
> accesses.

Eh?
If the CPU supports unaligned accesses you could patch the code
to do unaligned accesses.

I was thinking of the (probably likely) case where the pointer is
actually aligned.
An extra check for ((pointer) & 3) is almost certainly a 'win'
over the byte accesses and shift/mask/or use by get/put_unaligned().

The IO accesses probably dominate making more complex optimisations
less likely to have any benefit.

David

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