On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 07:03 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > +#define SBI_EXT_LEGACY_SET_TIMER 0x0
> > +#define SBI_EXT_LEGACY_CONSOLE_PUTCHAR 0x1
> > +#define SBI_EXT_LEGACY_CONSOLE_GETCHAR 0x2
> > +#define SBI_EXT_LEGACY_CLEAR_IPI 0x3
> > +#define SBI_EXT_LEGACY_SEND_IPI 0x4
> > +#define SBI_EXT_LEGACY_REMOTE_FENCE_I 0x5
> > +#define SBI_EXT_LEGACY_REMOTE_SFENCE_VMA 0x6
> > +#define SBI_EXT_LEGACY_REMOTE_SFENCE_VMA_ASID 0x7
> > +#define SBI_EXT_LEGACY_SHUTDOWN 0x8
>
> As Mike said legacy is a bit of a weird name. I think this should
> be SBI01_* or so. And pleae align the numeric values and maybe use
> an enum.
>
Will do.
> > +
> > +#define SBI_CALL_LEGACY(which, arg0, arg1, arg2, arg3)
> > ({ \
> > register uintptr_t a0 asm ("a0") = (uintptr_t)(arg0); \
> > register uintptr_t a1 asm ("a1") = (uintptr_t)(arg1); \
> > register uintptr_t a2 asm ("a2") = (uintptr_t)(arg2); \
>
> Instead of the weird inline assembly with forced register allocation,
> why not move this to pure assembly? AFAICs this is the whole
> assembly
> code we'd need:
>
> ENTRY(sbi01_call)
> ecall
> END(sbi01_call)
>
That would split the implementation between C file & assembly file for
no good reason.
How about moving everything in sbi.c and just write everything inline
assembly there.
> > /* Lazy implementations until SBI is finalized */
> > -#define SBI_CALL_0(which) SBI_CALL(which, 0, 0, 0, 0)
> > -#define SBI_CALL_1(which, arg0) SBI_CALL(which, arg0, 0, 0, 0)
> > -#define SBI_CALL_2(which, arg0, arg1) SBI_CALL(which, arg0, arg1,
> > 0, 0)
> > -#define SBI_CALL_3(which, arg0, arg1, arg2) \
> > - SBI_CALL(which, arg0, arg1, arg2, 0)
> > -#define SBI_CALL_4(which, arg0, arg1, arg2, arg3) \
> > - SBI_CALL(which, arg0, arg1, arg2, arg3)
> > +#define SBI_CALL_LEGACY_0(which) SBI_CALL_LEGACY(which, 0, 0, 0,
> > 0)
> > +#define SBI_CALL_LEGACY_1(which, arg0) SBI_CALL_LEGACY(which,
> > arg0, 0, 0, 0)
> > +#define SBI_CALL_LEGACY_2(which, arg0, arg1) \
> > + SBI_CALL_LEGACY(which, arg0, arg1, 0, 0)
> > +#define SBI_CALL_LEGACY_3(which, arg0, arg1, arg2) \
> > + SBI_CALL_LEGACY(which, arg0, arg1, arg2, 0)
> > +#define SBI_CALL_LEGACY_4(which, arg0, arg1, arg2, arg3) \
> > + SBI_CALL_LEGACY(which, arg0, arg1, arg2, arg3)
>
> When you touch this anyway I'd suggest you kill these rather
> pointless wrappers as well as the comment above them.
Sure. I did not want make bigger chagnes in 1st RFC patches. But
looking at the comments, I feel it was not a good decission.
I will get rid of these wrappers and move necessary ones to sbi.c
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Regards,
Atish
