On 11/03/2017 01:19 PM, Eric Anholt wrote:

Florian Fainelli [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

In preparation for allowing BCM63xx to use this driver, we abstract I/O
accessors such that we can easily change those later on.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <redacted>
---
 drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c
index 35928efb52e7..500275d55044 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/bcm2835-rng.c

@@ -42,6 +42,17 @@ static inline struct bcm2835_rng_priv *to_rng_priv(struct hwrng *rng)
 	return container_of(rng, struct bcm2835_rng_priv, rng);
 }
 
+static inline u32 rng_readl(struct bcm2835_rng_priv *priv, u32 offset)
+{
+	return readl(priv->base + offset);
+}
+
+static inline void rng_writel(struct bcm2835_rng_priv *priv, u32 val,
+			      u32 offset)
+{
+	writel(val, priv->base + offset);
+}
+
 static int bcm2835_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max,
 			       bool wait)
 {

@@ -49,18 +60,18 @@ static int bcm2835_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max,
 	u32 max_words = max / sizeof(u32);
 	u32 num_words, count;
 
-	while ((__raw_readl(priv->base + RNG_STATUS) >> 24) == 0) {
+	while ((rng_readl(priv, RNG_STATUS) >> 24) == 0) {
 		if (!wait)
 			return 0;
 		cpu_relax();
 	}

What was the difference between the __raw_readl and readl that's now
being done in the new call?  Is it important?

readl() on ARM contains a memory barrier, which has therefore stronger
ordering guarantees than __raw_readl() which does not.

In practice I don't think this makes a whole lot of difference in that
the above loop does not even have a barrier outside of it to try to have
any sort of ordering guarantee so it seems to me like this may be an
oversight.

I took the liberty to use the stronger operation here because it seems
to me like this is what is desired, or at least won't cause functional
problems, and because I am not intimately familiar with the 2835 busing
architecture. I know for a thing that the Broadcom STB and DSL busses
(named GISB and UBUS respectively) do not require such barriers since
they do not re-order transactions and are non-posted.

quoted

 	/* set warm-up count & enable */
-	__raw_writel(RNG_WARMUP_COUNT, priv->base + RNG_STATUS);
-	__raw_writel(RNG_RBGEN, priv->base + RNG_CTRL);
+	rng_writel(priv, RNG_WARMUP_COUNT, RNG_STATUS);
+	rng_writel(priv, RNG_RBGEN, RNG_CTRL);

Similar question.

And here we definitively are not in a hot-path so the more "ordered"
variant is acceptable it seems.
-- 
Florian
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