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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] mtd: orion-nand: fix build error with ARMv4
On 09 May 03:28 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> > I gave this a try in order to answer Arnd's performance
> > question. First of all, the patch seems wrong. I guess it's because
> > readsl reads 4-bytes pieces, instead of 8-bytes.
> >
> > This patch below is tested (but not completely, see below) and works:
>
> Compilers are better now, I think you can just ditch the weirdness:
>
[..]
>
> The below gives:
>
> c8: ea000002 b d8 <orion_nand_read_buf+0x84>
> cc: e5dc0000 ldrb r0, [ip]
> d0: e7c30001 strb r0, [r3, r1]
> d4: e2811001 add r1, r1, #1
> d8: e1510002 cmp r1, r2
>
> Which looks the same as the asm version to me.
>

Nice! It wasn't really needed but since I have the board here:

# time nanddump /dev/mtd5 -f /dev/null -q
real 0m 5.82s
user 0m 0.20s
sys 0m 5.60s

Jason: Care to submit a proper patch?

On 08 May 04:56 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Ok, that is a noticeable difference. For scale, what is the size of that partition?

The board is Openblocks A6, running mainline.

# cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00090000 00004000 "uboot"
mtd1: 00044000 00004000 "env"
mtd2: 00024000 00004000 "test"
mtd3: 00400000 00004000 "conf"
mtd4: 01d20000 00004000 "linux"
mtd5: 01dec000 00004000 "user"

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