On 29-11-2018 14:38, David Laight wrote:
> From: Jose Abreu
>> Sent: 29 November 2018 14:29
>>
>> 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.
> ...
>> +#define __raw_readsx(t,f) \
>> +static inline void __raw_reads##f(const volatile void __iomem *addr, \
>> + void *buffer, unsigned int count) \
>> +{ \
>> + if (count) { \
>> + const unsigned long bptr = (unsigned long)buffer; \
>> + u##t *buf = buffer; \
>> +\
>> + do { \
>> + u##t x = __raw_read##f(addr); \
>> +\
>> + /* Some ARC CPU's don't support unaligned accesses */ \
>> + if (bptr % ((t) / 8)) { \
>> + put_unaligned(x, buf++); \
>> + } else { \
>> + *buf++ = x; \
>> + } \
>> + } while (--count); \
>> + } \
>> +}
> Does the compiler move the alignment test outside the loop?
> You really want two copies of the loop body.
Hmm, I would expect so because the if condition takes two const
args ... I will try check that.
Thanks and Best Regards,
Jose Miguel Abreu
>
> David
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