On 22/12/14 11:23, Peng Fan wrote:
> For arm 32 bit architecture, 8 bytes load/store operation in one instruction
> will not be generated by compiler.

Ever heard of lrdr/strd?

> And before invoke mmio_read_buf, there is a piece of code:
> "
>                  len = run->mmio.len;
>                  if (len > sizeof(unsigned long))
>                          return -EINVAL;
> 
>               data = mmio_read_buf(run->mmio.data, len);
> "
> 
> This piece code also tells that len variable does not exceeds 4 bytes.
> So, remove 8 bytes assign in mmio_read_buf and mmio_write_buf.

NAK. This code is shared between arm and arm64. See commit f42798c.

        M.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <[email protected]>
> CC: Gleb Natapov <[email protected]>
> CC: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
> CC: Christoffer Dall <[email protected]>
> CC: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
> CC: Russell King <[email protected]>
> ---
>  arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c | 10 ----------
>  1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
> index 4cb5a93..953a819 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
> @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ static void mmio_write_buf(char *buf, unsigned int len, 
> unsigned long data)
>               u8      byte;
>               u16     hword;
>               u32     word;
> -             u64     dword;
>       } tmp;
>  
>       switch (len) {
> @@ -46,10 +45,6 @@ static void mmio_write_buf(char *buf, unsigned int len, 
> unsigned long data)
>               tmp.word        = data;
>               datap           = &tmp.word;
>               break;
> -     case 8:
> -             tmp.dword       = data;
> -             datap           = &tmp.dword;
> -             break;
>       }
>  
>       memcpy(buf, datap, len);
> @@ -61,7 +56,6 @@ static unsigned long mmio_read_buf(char *buf, unsigned int 
> len)
>       union {
>               u16     hword;
>               u32     word;
> -             u64     dword;
>       } tmp;
>  
>       switch (len) {
> @@ -76,10 +70,6 @@ static unsigned long mmio_read_buf(char *buf, unsigned int 
> len)
>               memcpy(&tmp.word, buf, len);
>               data = tmp.word;
>               break;
> -     case 8:
> -             memcpy(&tmp.dword, buf, len);
> -             data = tmp.dword;
> -             break;
>       }
>  
>       return data;
> 


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