[PATCH v4 04/47] soc: fsl: qe: introduce qe_io{read,write}* wrappers

[Timur Tabi]

On 11/12/19 1:14 AM, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> but that's because readl and writel by definition work on little-endian
> registers. I.e., on a BE platform, the readl and writel implementation
> must themselves contain a swab, so the above would end up doing two
> swabs on a BE platform.

Do you know whether the compiler optimizes-out the double swab?

> (On PPC, there's a separate definition of mmio_read32be, namely
> writel_be, which in turn does a out_be32, so on PPC that doesn't
> actually end up doing two swabs).
> 
> So ioread32be etc. have well-defined semantics: access a big-endian
> register and return the result in native endianness.

It seems weird that there aren't any cross-arch lightweight 
endian-specific I/O accessors.