Re: [RFC PATCH V2 1/3] PCI: hisi: re-architect Hip05/Hip06 controllers driver to preapare for ACPI

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 7:48:12 PM CEST Dongdong Liu wrote:
> +
> +/* HipXX PCIe host only supports 32-bit config access */
> +int hisi_pcie_common_cfg_read(void __iomem *reg_base, int where, int size,
> +                             u32 *val)
> +{
> +       u32 reg;
> +       u32 reg_val;
> +       void *walker = &reg_val;
> +
> +       walker += (where & 0x3);
> +       reg = where & ~0x3;
> +       reg_val = readl(reg_base + reg);
> +
> +       if (size == 1)
> +               *val = *(u8 __force *) walker;
> +       else if (size == 2)
> +               *val = *(u16 __force *) walker;

What is the __force for?

> +       else if (size == 4)
> +               *val = reg_val;
> +       else
> +               return PCIBIOS_BAD_REGISTER_NUMBER;
> +
> +       return PCIBIOS_SUCCESSFUL;

It looks like you are reimplementing 
pci_generic_config_read32/pci_generic_config_write32
read here, better use them directly.

        Arnd