Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 01/14] x86/asm: add iosubmit_cmds512() based on movdir64b CPU instruction | | From | Dave Hansen <> | | Date | Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:50:24 -0800 |
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On 11/20/19 1:23 PM, Dave Jiang wrote: > +static inline void __iowrite512(void __iomem *__dst, const void *src) > +{ > + volatile struct { char _[64]; } *dst = __dst;
This _looks_ like gibberish. I know it's not, but it is subtle enough that it really needs specific comments.
> +static inline void iosubmit_cmds512(void __iomem *dst, const void *src, > + size_t count) > +{ > + const u8 *from = src; > + const u8 *end = from + count * 64; > + > + if (!cpu_has_write512()) > + return; > + > + while (from < end) { > + __iowrite512(dst, from); > + from += 64; > + } > +}
Won't this silently just drop things if the CPU doesn't have movdir64b support?
It seems like this shouldn't be called at all if !cpu_has_write512(), but wouldn't something like this be mroe appropriate?
if (!cpu_has_write512()) { WARN_ON_ONCE(1); return; }
Is the caller just supposed to infer that "dst" was never overwritten?
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