Le 22/10/2014 11:00, Arnd Bergmann a écrit :
> On Sunday 19 October 2014 16:16:22 LABBE Corentin wrote:
>> Add support for the Security System included in Allwinner SoC A20.
>> The Security System is a hardware cryptographic accelerator that support
>> AES/MD5/SHA1/DES/3DES/PRNG algorithms.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montj...@gmail.com>
>
> Please wrap lines in the changelog after about 70 characters.
>
Oups I just see the corresponding part in submittingpatches.txt
Sorry
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/drivers/crypto/sunxi-ss/sunxi-ss-cipher.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,489 @@
>
>> +#include "sunxi-ss.h"
>> +
>> +extern struct sunxi_ss_ctx *ss;
>
> 'extern' declarations belong into header files, not .c files. It would
> be even better to avoid this completely and carry the pointer to the
> context in an object that gets passed around. In general we want drivers
> to be written in a way that allows having multiple instances of the
> device, which the global pointer prevents.
>
As I already said I think the driver will never be used with multiple instance.
But since many people want this pointer dead, I will work on it.
>> +
>> + src32 = (u32 *)src_addr;
>> + dst32 = (u32 *)dst_addr;
>
>
> You appear to be missing '__iomem' annotations for the mmio pointers.
> Please always run your code through the 'sparse' checker using 'make C=1'
> to catch and fix this and other erros.
>
Ok, but with which version of sparse do you have such a warning. I use the
0.5.0 version and I got no warning at all.
>> + ileft = areq->nbytes / 4;
>> + oleft = areq->nbytes / 4;
>> + i = 0;
>> + do {
>> + if (ileft > 0 && rx_cnt > 0) {
>> + todo = min(rx_cnt, ileft);
>> + ileft -= todo;
>> + do {
>> + writel_relaxed(*src32++,
>> + ss->base +
>> + SS_RXFIFO);
>> + todo--;
>> + } while (todo > 0);
>> + }
>
> This looks like it should be using writesl() instead of the
> writel_relaxed() loop. That should not only be faster but it will
> also change the byte ordering if you are running a big-endian
> kernel.
>
> Since this is a FIFO register, the ordering that writesl uses
> is likely the correct one.
Great, the code is much cleaner with it. (with up to 10% speed gain)
Thanks
Corentin
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