[PATCH] drm/amdgpu: replace readq/writeq with atomic64 operations

[Koenig, Christian]

Am 07.08.19 um 15:00 schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 10:55:01AM +0000, Koenig, Christian wrote:
>>>> Essentially writeq/readq doesn't seems to be available on all
>>>> architectures either.
>>> writeq/readq are provided whenever the CPU actually supports 64-bit
>>> atomic loads and stores.
>> Is there a config option which we can make the driver depend on?
>>
>> I mean that ARM doesn't support 64bit atomic loads and stores on MMIO is
>> quite a boomer for us.
> The model is to cheack if readq/writeq are defined, and if not to
> include the one of io-64-nonatomic-hi-lo.h or io-64-nonatomic-lo-hi.h.
> The reason for that is that hardware is supposed to be able to deal with
> two 32-bit writes, but it depends on the hardware if the lower or upper
> half is what commits the write.

Read, but as I understood Tao change this is not the case here. 
Otherwise we would just use our WREG32/RREG32 macros in the driver.

Tao, please explain why exactly we need the WREG64/RREG64 change which 
caused this.

Christian.

>
> The only 32-bit platform that claims support for readq/writeq is sh,
> and I have doubts if that actually works as expected.