Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] KVM: selftests: aarch64: Move pmu helper functions into vpmu.h

From: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
To: Shaoqin Huang <shahuang@redhat.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
	kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, Eric Auger <eauger@redhat.com>,
	Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>,
	James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] KVM: selftests: aarch64: Move pmu helper functions into vpmu.h
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 07:44:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZbydeB5MEJIhxaw6@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240202025659.5065-3-shahuang@redhat.com>

On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 09:56:51PM -0500, Shaoqin Huang wrote:
> -static uint64_t get_pmcr_n(uint64_t pmcr)
> -{
> -	return FIELD_GET(ARMV8_PMU_PMCR_N, pmcr);
> -}
> -
> -static void set_pmcr_n(uint64_t *pmcr, uint64_t pmcr_n)
> -{
> -	u64p_replace_bits((__u64 *) pmcr, pmcr_n, ARMV8_PMU_PMCR_N);
> -}
> -
> -static uint64_t get_counters_mask(uint64_t n)
> -{
> -	uint64_t mask = BIT(ARMV8_PMU_CYCLE_IDX);
> -
> -	if (n)
> -		mask |= GENMASK(n - 1, 0);
> -	return mask;
> -}

I don't see these helpers being used by your test, and they seem rather
specific to what the original test was trying to accomplish. Let's not
move this unnecessarily.

-- 
Thanks,
Oliver