From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Joseph, Jithu" <jithu.joseph@intel.com>
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"Mehta, Sohil" <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 4/5] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Implement Array BIST test
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2023 17:22:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ1PR11MB6083EBD2D2826E0A247AF242FCD19@SJ1PR11MB6083.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y9nyWVNtfBEny66w@kroah.com>
> > +/* MSR_ARRAY_BIST bit fields */
> > +union ifs_array {
> > + u64 data;
> > + struct {
> > + u32 array_bitmask :32;
> > + u32 array_bank :16;
> > + u32 rsvd :15;
> > + u32 ctrl_result :1;
>
> This isn't going to work well over time, just mask the bits you want off
> properly, don't rely on the compiler to lay them out like this.
What is this "time" issue? This driver is X86_64 specific (and it seems
incredibly unlikely that some other architecture will copy this h/w
interface so closely that they want to re-use this driver. There's an x86_64
ABI that says how bitfields in C are allocated. So should not break moving
to other C compilers.
Is there going to be a "re-write all drivers in Rust" edict coming soon?
> Note, we have bitmask and bitfield operations, please use them.
We do, but code written using them is not as easy to read (unless
you wrap in even more macros, which has its own maintainability
issues).
There are already thousands of bitfields in Linux kernel source:
$ git grep ':[1-9][0-9]*;' -- include/ | wc -l
2251
Has there been a change in attitude at the kernel maintainers summit?
-Tony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-01 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-31 23:42 [PATCH 0/5] Add Array BIST test support to IFS Jithu Joseph
2023-01-31 23:42 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86/include/asm/msr-index.h: Add IFS Array test bits Jithu Joseph
2023-01-31 23:42 ` [PATCH 2/5] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Introduce Array Scan test to IFS Jithu Joseph
2023-01-31 23:43 ` [PATCH 3/5] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Sysfs interface for Array BIST Jithu Joseph
2023-02-01 5:04 ` Greg KH
2023-02-01 20:55 ` Joseph, Jithu
2023-01-31 23:43 ` [PATCH 4/5] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Implement Array BIST test Jithu Joseph
2023-02-01 5:02 ` Greg KH
2023-02-01 17:22 ` Luck, Tony [this message]
2023-02-01 18:19 ` Greg KH
2023-02-01 19:22 ` Tony Luck
2023-02-01 19:35 ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-01 19:43 ` Luck, Tony
2023-02-01 19:53 ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-01 19:45 ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-01 19:56 ` Joseph, Jithu
2023-02-01 20:49 ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-01 21:34 ` Luck, Tony
2023-01-31 23:43 ` [PATCH 5/5] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Trace support for array test Jithu Joseph
2023-02-06 16:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-02-06 19:50 ` Joseph, Jithu
2023-02-14 23:44 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] Add Array BIST test support to IFS Jithu Joseph
2023-02-14 23:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] x86/include/asm/msr-index.h: Add IFS Array test bits Jithu Joseph
2023-02-14 23:44 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Introduce Array Scan test to IFS Jithu Joseph
2023-02-16 12:40 ` Greg KH
2023-02-16 18:46 ` Luck, Tony
2023-02-16 22:57 ` Joseph, Jithu
2023-02-17 9:25 ` Greg KH
2023-02-14 23:44 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Sysfs interface for Array BIST Jithu Joseph
2023-02-14 23:44 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Implement Array BIST test Jithu Joseph
2023-02-15 16:58 ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-15 17:11 ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-15 20:22 ` Joseph, Jithu
2023-02-15 20:26 ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-15 21:13 ` Joseph, Jithu
2023-02-15 21:18 ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-22 20:12 ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-22 22:07 ` Joseph, Jithu
2023-02-22 22:28 ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-22 22:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-02-22 23:32 ` Joseph, Jithu
2023-02-22 23:59 ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-15 17:44 ` Joseph, Jithu
2023-02-14 23:44 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Trace support for array test Jithu Joseph
2023-02-16 0:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-02-14 23:44 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Update IFS doc Jithu Joseph
2023-02-14 23:44 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] Documentation/ABI: Update IFS ABI doc Jithu Joseph
2023-03-01 1:59 ` [PATCH v3 0/8] Add Array BIST test support to IFS Jithu Joseph
2023-03-01 1:59 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Reorganize driver data Jithu Joseph
2023-03-13 14:46 ` Hans de Goede
2023-03-13 21:34 ` Joseph, Jithu
2023-03-16 9:43 ` Hans de Goede
2023-03-01 1:59 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] platform/x86/intel/ifs: IFS cleanup Jithu Joseph
2023-03-13 15:02 ` Hans de Goede
2023-03-01 1:59 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] x86/include/asm/msr-index.h: Add IFS Array test bits Jithu Joseph
2023-03-13 15:03 ` Hans de Goede
2023-03-01 1:59 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Introduce Array Scan test to IFS Jithu Joseph
2023-03-13 16:10 ` Hans de Goede
2023-03-13 16:29 ` Hans de Goede
2023-03-13 17:21 ` Luck, Tony
2023-03-15 19:29 ` Joseph, Jithu
2023-03-16 9:50 ` Hans de Goede
2023-03-16 19:44 ` Joseph, Jithu
2023-03-01 1:59 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Sysfs interface for Array BIST Jithu Joseph
2023-03-13 16:14 ` Hans de Goede
2023-03-01 1:59 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Implement Array BIST test Jithu Joseph
2023-03-13 16:24 ` Hans de Goede
2023-03-13 16:37 ` Joseph, Jithu
2023-03-16 9:59 ` Hans de Goede
2023-03-16 17:40 ` Joseph, Jithu
2023-03-16 18:11 ` Joseph, Jithu
2023-03-16 19:38 ` Hans de Goede
2023-03-01 1:59 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Update IFS doc Jithu Joseph
2023-03-01 1:59 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] Documentation/ABI: Update IFS ABI doc Jithu Joseph
2023-03-07 11:02 ` [PATCH v3 0/8] Add Array BIST test support to IFS Hans de Goede
2023-03-22 0:33 ` [PATCH v4 0/9] " Jithu Joseph
2023-03-22 0:33 ` [PATCH v4 1/9] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Separate ifs_pkg_auth from ifs_data Jithu Joseph
2023-03-22 0:33 ` [PATCH v4 2/9] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Reorganize driver data Jithu Joseph
2023-03-22 0:33 ` [PATCH v4 3/9] platform/x86/intel/ifs: IFS cleanup Jithu Joseph
2023-03-22 0:33 ` [PATCH v4 4/9] x86/include/asm/msr-index.h: Add IFS Array test bits Jithu Joseph
2023-03-22 0:33 ` [PATCH v4 5/9] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Introduce Array Scan test to IFS Jithu Joseph
2023-03-22 0:33 ` [PATCH v4 6/9] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Sysfs interface for Array BIST Jithu Joseph
2023-03-22 0:33 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Implement Array BIST test Jithu Joseph
2023-03-22 0:33 ` [PATCH v4 8/9] platform/x86/intel/ifs: Update IFS doc Jithu Joseph
2023-03-22 0:33 ` [PATCH v4 9/9] Documentation/ABI: Update IFS ABI doc Jithu Joseph
2023-03-27 13:10 ` [PATCH v4 0/9] Add Array BIST test support to IFS Hans de Goede
2023-04-07 1:49 ` Pengfei Xu
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