The architectures supported by this driver, arm and sh, have expensive implementations of writel(), reliant on spin locks and explicit L2 cache management. These architectures provide a cheaper writel_relaxed() which is much better suited to peripherals that do not perform DMA. The situation with readl()/readl_relaxed()is similar although less acute.
This driver does not use DMA and will be more power efficient and more robust (due to absence of spin locks during console I/O) if it uses the relaxed variants.
The driver supports COMPILE_TEST and therefore falls back to writel() when writel_relaxed() does not exist.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson daniel.thompson@linaro.org Cc: Srinivas Kandagatla srinivas.kandagatla@gmail.com Cc: Maxime Coquelin maxime.coquelin@st.com Cc: Patrice Chotard patrice.chotard@st.com Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz Cc: kernel@stlinux.com Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org ---
Notes: Changes since v1:
* Added fallback to writel() to permit COMPILE_TESTing (review of Greg Kroah-Hartmam).
drivers/tty/serial/st-asc.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/st-asc.c b/drivers/tty/serial/st-asc.c index 8b2d735..a3fc167 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/st-asc.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/st-asc.c @@ -151,12 +151,16 @@ static inline struct asc_port *to_asc_port(struct uart_port *port)
static inline u32 asc_in(struct uart_port *port, u32 offset) { - return readl(port->membase + offset); + return readl_relaxed(port->membase + offset); }
static inline void asc_out(struct uart_port *port, u32 offset, u32 value) { +#ifdef writel_relaxed + writel_relaxed(value, port->membase + offset); +#else writel(value, port->membase + offset); +#endif }
/* -- 1.9.3