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authorKyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki@gmail.com>2019-03-05 07:56:38 +0200
committerKyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki@gmail.com>2019-04-07 02:31:36 +0000
commitd2cdfff63b6e2376fad729252a57acfd2b4418ea (patch)
tree01d0ccd1e0826c9449a6c4f1781e7feb813fe537 /src/southbridge/intel/common
parentbf0970e762a6611cef06af761bc2dec068d439bb (diff)
device/pci: Rewrite PCI MMCONF with symbol reference
The effect of pointer aliasing on writes is that any data on CPU registers that has been resolved from (non-const and non-volatile) memory objects has to be discarded and resolved. In other words, the compiler assumes that a pointer that does not have an absolute value at build-time, and is of type 'void *' or 'char *', may write over any memory object. Using a unique datatype for MMIO writes makes the pointer to _not_ qualify for pointer aliasing with any other objects in memory. This avoid constantly resolving the PCI MMCONF address, which is a derived value from a 'struct device *'. Change-Id: Id112aa5e729ffd8015bb806786bdee38783b7ea9 Signed-off-by: Kyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki@gmail.com> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/31752 Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org> Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
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