From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com, cohuck@redhat.com, david@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] pc-bios: s390x: Rework data initialization
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 13:56:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b7650c7e-4cd9-09ea-57af-0d2982423d0e@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200715094045.381984-5-frankja@linux.ibm.com>
On 15/07/2020 11.40, Janosch Frank wrote:
> Sometimes a memset is nicer to read than multiple struct->data = 0;
>
> Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> pc-bios/s390-ccw/dasd-ipl.c | 7 ++-----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/pc-bios/s390-ccw/dasd-ipl.c b/pc-bios/s390-ccw/dasd-ipl.c
> index e8f2846740..0543334ed4 100644
> --- a/pc-bios/s390-ccw/dasd-ipl.c
> +++ b/pc-bios/s390-ccw/dasd-ipl.c
> @@ -167,16 +167,13 @@ static void ipl1_fixup(void)
> ccwSeek->cda = ptr2u32(seekData);
> ccwSeek->chain = 1;
> ccwSeek->count = sizeof(*seekData);
> - seekData->reserved = 0x00;
> - seekData->cyl = 0x00;
> - seekData->head = 0x00;
> + memset(seekData, 0, sizeof(*seekData));
Sounds ok for me if the whole struct gets cleared (though I wonder
whether this is really worth the effort)...
> ccwSearchID->cmd_code = CCW_CMD_DASD_SEARCH_ID_EQ;
> ccwSearchID->cda = ptr2u32(searchData);
> ccwSearchID->chain = 1;
> ccwSearchID->count = sizeof(*searchData);
> - searchData->cyl = 0;
> - searchData->head = 0;
> + memset(searchData, 0, sizeof(*searchData));
> searchData->record = 2;
... but that looks rather worse to me, and the generated code will
likely also be slightly worse (since ->record is cleared first and then
set to 2 again).
Maybe rather drop this patch?
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-20 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-15 9:40 [PATCH 0/7] pc-bios: s390x: Cleanup part 2 Janosch Frank
2020-07-15 9:40 ` [PATCH 1/7] pc-bios: s390x: Fix bootmap.c zipl component entry data handling Janosch Frank
2020-07-17 15:05 ` Thomas Huth
2020-07-22 6:50 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-07-22 7:30 ` Janosch Frank
2020-07-22 7:33 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-07-22 8:06 ` Janosch Frank
2020-07-15 9:40 ` [PATCH 2/7] pc-bios: s390x: Cleanup jump to ipl code Janosch Frank
2020-07-17 15:13 ` Thomas Huth
2020-07-21 13:07 ` Janosch Frank
2020-07-21 13:54 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-07-15 9:40 ` [PATCH 3/7] pc-bios: s390x: Remove unneeded dasd-ipl.c reset psw mask changes Janosch Frank
2020-07-20 11:45 ` Thomas Huth
2020-07-20 12:16 ` Janosch Frank
2020-07-21 7:10 ` Thomas Huth
2020-07-15 9:40 ` [PATCH 4/7] pc-bios: s390x: Rework data initialization Janosch Frank
2020-07-20 11:56 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2020-07-20 12:10 ` Janosch Frank
2020-07-15 9:40 ` [PATCH 5/7] pc-bios: s390x: Replace lowcore offsets with pointers in dasd-ipl.c Janosch Frank
2020-07-21 7:00 ` Thomas Huth
2020-07-15 9:40 ` [PATCH 6/7] pc-bios: s390x: Use PSW constants in start.S Janosch Frank
2020-07-21 7:05 ` Thomas Huth
2020-07-22 6:47 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-07-15 9:40 ` [PATCH 7/7] pc-bios: s390x: Setup io and ext new psws only once Janosch Frank
2020-07-15 13:13 ` Janosch Frank
2020-07-15 13:16 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-07-15 14:08 ` [PATCH] pc-bios: s390x: Add a comment to the io and external new PSW setup Janosch Frank
2020-07-21 7:03 ` Thomas Huth
2020-07-22 6:43 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-07-22 7:24 ` Janosch Frank
2020-07-22 7:39 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-07-22 8:05 ` Janosch Frank
2020-08-27 9:20 ` Thomas Huth
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