Re: [PATCH 3/7] asm-generic/io.h: make ioread64 and iowrite64 universally available

From	Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
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Subject	Re: [PATCH 3/7] asm-generic/io.h: make ioread64 and iowrite64 universally available
Date	2017-06-22 22:40 +0200
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On 6/22/2017 2:36 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> I think that makes sense for the platforms with that problem. I'm not
> sure there are many that can't do it for mmio at least. 486SX can't do it
> and I guess some ARM32 but I think almost everyone else can including
> most 32bit x86.
>
> What's more of a problem is a lot of platforms can do 64bit MMIO via
> ioread/write64 but not 64bit port I/O, and it's not clear how you
> represent that via an ioread/write API that abstracts it away.

In Patch 2, we call bad_io_access for anyone trying to do 64bit accesses 
on port I/O.

Logan

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[PATCH 3/7] asm-generic/io.h: make ioread64 and iowrite64 universally available Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> - 2017-06-22 18:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 3/7] asm-generic/io.h: make ioread64 and iowrite64  universally available Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2017-06-22 22:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/7] asm-generic/io.h: make ioread64 and iowrite64  universally available Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> - 2017-06-22 22:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 3/7] asm-generic/io.h: make ioread64 and iowrite64  universally available Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2017-06-22 22:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 3/7] asm-generic/io.h: make ioread64 and iowrite64  universally available Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> - 2017-06-22 22:40 +0200

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