From: linux@roeck-us.net (Guenter Roeck)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] hwmon: xgene: access mailbox as RAM
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 14:56:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160909215653.GA2362@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3475893.910N1IvcYZ@wuerfel>
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 10:10:45PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The newly added hwmon driver fails to build in an allmodconfig
> kernel:
>
> ERROR: "memblock_is_memory" [drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.ko] undefined!
>
> According to comments in the code, the mailbox is a shared memory region,
> not a set of MMIO registers, so we should use memremap() for mapping it
> instead of ioremap or acpi_os_ioremap, and pointer dereferences instead
> of readl/writel.
>
> The driver already uses plain kernel pointers, so it's a bit unusual
> to work with functions that operate on __iomem pointers, and this
> fixes that part too.
>
> I'm using READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE here to keep the existing behavior
> regarding the ordering of the accesses from the CPU, but note that
> there are no barriers (also unchanged from before).
>
> I'm also keeping the endianess behavior, though I'm unsure whether
> the message data was supposed to be in LE32 format in the first
> place, it's possible this was meant to be interpreted as a byte
> stream instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Applied after 's/endianess/endianness/' to make checkpatch happy.
Thanks,
Guenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-09 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-21 20:55 [PATCH v3 0/3] hwmon: xgene: Add support for X-Gene hwmon driver Hoan Tran
2016-07-21 20:55 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: dtb: xgene: Add hwmon dts binding documentation Hoan Tran
2016-07-21 22:02 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-21 20:55 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] hwmon: xgene: Add hwmon driver Hoan Tran
2016-07-21 22:09 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-21 22:21 ` Hoan Tran
2016-08-01 13:21 ` kbuild test robot
2016-08-01 16:39 ` Hoan Tran
2016-09-07 21:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-07 22:27 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-09-08 8:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-08 14:55 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-09-08 14:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-07 22:37 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-09-08 8:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-08 10:47 ` James Morse
2016-09-09 3:18 ` AKASHI Takahiro
2016-09-09 9:31 ` James Morse
2016-09-09 15:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-09 15:38 ` [PATCH] hwmon: xgene: access mailbox as RAM Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-09 16:58 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-09-09 17:05 ` Hoan Tran
2016-09-09 19:24 ` Hoan Tran
2016-09-09 19:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-09 20:10 ` [PATCH v2] " Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-09 20:47 ` Hoan Tran
2016-09-09 21:56 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2016-09-09 20:43 ` [PATCH] " Hoan Tran
2016-09-09 20:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-09 20:51 ` Hoan Tran
2016-07-21 20:55 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] arm64: dts: apm: Add X-Gene SoC hwmon to device tree Hoan Tran
2016-07-21 22:09 ` Guenter Roeck
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