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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: "'Michal Suchánek'" <msuchanek@suse.de>,
	Vicky <honclo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Marcel Selhorst <tpmdd@selhorst.net>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>,
	"tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" 
	<tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Ashley Lai <ashleydlai@gmail.com>,
	Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>,
	"linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: RE: ibmvtpm byteswapping inconsistency
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 15:17:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6DB0278B33@AcuExch.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170202122942.7fd9988d@kitsune.suse.cz>

From: Michal Suchánek
> Sent: 02 February 2017 11:30
...
> The word is marked correctly as __be64 in that patch because count and
> handle are swapped to BE when saved to it and the whole word is then
> swapped again when loaded. If you just load ((u64)IBMVTPM_VALID_CMD <<
> 56 | ((u64)VTPM_TPM_COMMAND << 48) | ((u64)count << 32) |
> ibmvtpm->rtce_dma_handle in a register it works equally well
> without any __be and swaps involved.

And that version will almost certainly generate much better code.

	David

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-02 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-26 20:22 ibmvtpm byteswapping inconsistency Michal Suchánek
2017-01-26 22:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-01-26 22:43   ` Michal Suchanek
2017-01-26 22:58   ` Ashley Lai
2017-02-02  4:40     ` Vicky
2017-02-02 10:55       ` Michael Ellerman
2017-02-02 11:29       ` Michal Suchánek
2017-02-02 15:17         ` David Laight [this message]
2017-01-27  1:42 ` Tyrel Datwyler
2017-01-27  1:50   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2017-01-27  9:03     ` Michal Suchanek
2017-01-27 21:19       ` Tyrel Datwyler
2017-01-30  4:32         ` Michael Ellerman
2017-01-30 20:34           ` Tyrel Datwyler
2017-01-31  8:38             ` Michael Ellerman
2017-01-27 18:02     ` Tyrel Datwyler
2017-01-27 19:58       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2017-01-27 20:32         ` Tyrel Datwyler
2017-01-28  0:35           ` msuchanek
2017-01-28  4:28           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2017-01-30 14:42       ` David Laight
2017-01-27 11:18 ` David Laight

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