ARC: io.h: Implement reads{x}()/writes{x}()
authorJose Abreu <joabreu@synopsys.com>
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 09:47:31 +0000 (09:47 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 21 Dec 2018 13:15:16 +0000 (14:15 +0100)
commitbf69dc3cb1b8a72652ed44020678b6dbefa713fc
tree0c315dd05e818c72f71b5c6baa5d2fe7108b912d
parentdbb0f9e74655a636f415c37dd66d92deb5237a65
ARC: io.h: Implement reads{x}()/writes{x}()

[ Upstream commit 10d443431dc2bb733cf7add99b453e3fb9047a2e ]

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() helpers instead of plain dereference of
pointer in order to fix. The helpers allow to get and store data from an
unaligned address whilst preserving the CPU internal alignment.
According to [1], the use of these helpers are costly in terms of
performance so we added an initial check for a buffer already aligned so
that the usage of the helpers can be avoided, when possible.

[1] Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt

Cc: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Cc: Joao Pinto <jpinto@synopsys.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Tested-by: Vitor Soares <soares@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Jose Abreu <joabreu@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
arch/arc/include/asm/io.h