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From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: "Andy Shevchenko" <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] PCI: brcmstb: Use BIT() as __GENMASK() is for internal use only
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:14:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHp75VeJ8ZiD=qQVfeahUjGZduFRJJ5683hn8f4810JYEzsCyw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <94d3f4e5-a698-134c-8264-55d31d3eafa6@arm.com>

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 4:01 PM Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> wrote:
> On 2021-11-15 11:20, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > Use BIT() as __GENMASK() is for internal use only. The rationale
> > of switching to BIT() is to provide better generated code. The
> > GENMASK() against non-constant numbers may produce an ugly assembler
> > code. On contrary the BIT() is simply converted to corresponding shift
> > operation.
>
> FWIW, If you care about code quality and want the compiler to do the
> obvious thing, why not specify it as the obvious thing:
>
>         u32 val = ~0 << msi->legacy_shift;

Obvious and buggy (from the C standard point of view)? :-)

> Personally I don't think that abusing BIT() in the context of setting
> multiple bits is any better than abusing __GENMASK()...

No, BIT() is not abused here, but __GENMASK().

After all it's up to you, folks, consider that as a bug report.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-15 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-15 11:20 [PATCH v2 1/1] PCI: brcmstb: Use BIT() as __GENMASK() is for internal use only Andy Shevchenko
2021-11-15 11:57 ` Krzysztof Wilczyński
2021-11-15 13:59 ` Robin Murphy
2021-11-15 14:14   ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2021-11-15 14:39     ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-11-16 18:20       ` Rob Herring
2021-11-16 20:41         ` Florian Fainelli
2021-11-16 20:56           ` Florian Fainelli
2021-11-17 10:37             ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-11-17 22:46             ` Rob Herring
2021-11-16 20:38 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-11-17 12:42   ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-12-01 15:53 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2021-12-01 16:01   ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-12-01 17:13     ` Lorenzo Pieralisi

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