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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Cc: "Alastair D'Silva" <alastair@au1.ibm.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	alastair@d-silva.org, Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] powerpc: Convert flush_icache_range & friends to C
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 13:31:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190903183157.GB9749@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <321b003a-9633-5ff4-c4a2-59a47ec23421@c-s.fr>

On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 07:05:19PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Le 03/09/2019 à 18:04, Segher Boessenkool a écrit :
> >(Why are they separate though?  It could just be one loop var).
> 
> Yes it could just be a single loop var, but in that case it would have 
> to be reset at the start of the second loop, which means we would have 
> to pass 'addr' for resetting the loop anyway,

Right, I noticed that after hitting send, as usual.

> so I opted to do it 
> outside the inline asm by using to separate loop vars set to their 
> starting value outside the inline asm.

The thing is, the way it is written now, it will get separate registers
for each loop (with proper earlyclobbers added).  Not that that really
matters of course, it just feels wrong :-)


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-03 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-03  5:23 [PATCH v2 0/6] powerpc: convert cache asm to C Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-03  5:23 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] powerpc: Allow flush_icache_range to work across ranges >4GB Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-14  7:46   ` Christophe Leroy
2019-09-16  3:25     ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-03  5:23 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] powerpc: define helpers to get L1 icache sizes Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-03  5:23 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] powerpc: Convert flush_icache_range & friends to C Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-03  6:08   ` Christophe Leroy
2019-09-03 11:25     ` Michael Ellerman
2019-09-04  3:23     ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-04 13:35       ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-09-03 13:04   ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-09-03 14:28     ` Christophe Leroy
2019-09-03 16:04       ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-09-03 17:05         ` Christophe Leroy
2019-09-03 18:31           ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2019-09-03 20:11             ` Gabriel Paubert
2019-09-04  3:42               ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-04  3:36         ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-03  5:23 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] powerpc: Chunk calls to flush_dcache_range in arch_*_memory Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-03  6:19   ` Christophe Leroy
2019-09-03  6:25     ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-03  6:51       ` Christophe Leroy
2019-09-04  4:11         ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-03  5:23 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] powerpc: Remove 'extern' from func prototypes in cache headers Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-03  6:21   ` Christophe Leroy
2019-09-03  5:24 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] powerpc: Don't flush caches when adding memory Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-03  6:23   ` Christophe Leroy
2019-09-03  6:27     ` Alastair D'Silva

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