Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: architecture independent readq/writeq for 32bit environment

["hpanvin@gmail.com" <hpa@zytor.com>]

The point is that the type for all readq/writeq should be u64.

Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 23:45, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> On 02/09/2012 05:37 AM, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:47, hpanvin@gmail.com<hpa@zytor.com>
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Should be volatile u64 * not volatile void *...
>>>
>>>
>>> Is this the type of parameters?
>>> The parameters of atomic readq/writeq defined in
>arch/x86/include/asm/io.h
>>> are defined as void *. I think that atomic readq/writeq and
>non-atomic
>>> readq/writeq
>>> should have same typed parameters and return values.
>>>
>>
>> That sounds like a bug.
>>
>>        -hpa
>>
>
>Sorry for my bad writing, I didn't mention:
>the parameter type == the return value type
>
>My intention is:
>parameter type of atomic readq/writeq == parameter type of non-atomic
>readq/writeq
>&&
>return value type of atomic readq/writeq == return value type of
>non-atomic readq/writeq
>
># == means "should be equal"
>
>-- 
>Hitoshi Mitake
>h.mitake@gmail.com

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