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Subtracting the offset delta from four-byte alignment lead to wrapping
of the requested length where `count` is less than `off`. Generalise the
length handling to enable and optimise aligned access sizes for all
offset and size combinations. The new formula produces the following
results for given offset and count values:
offset count | length
--------------+-------
0 1 | 1
0 2 | 2
0 3 | 2
0 4 | 4
0 5 | 4
1 1 | 1
1 2 | 1
1 3 | 1
1 4 | 1
1 5 | 1
2 1 | 1
2 2 | 2
2 3 | 2
2 4 | 2
2 5 | 2
3 1 | 1
3 2 | 1
3 3 | 1
3 4 | 1
3 5 | 1
We might need something like this for the cfam chardevs as well, for
example we don't currently implement any alignment restrictions /
handling in the hardware master driver.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191108051945.7109-6-joel@jms.id.au
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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