From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 18:09:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/7] ARM: cache-v7: shift CLIDR to extract appropriate field before masking In-Reply-To: References: <20150403100848.GZ24899@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: <20150409170934.GE23861@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 11:54:22AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > Rather than have code which masks and then shifts, such as: > > mrc p15, 1, r0, c0, c0, 1 > ALT_SMP(ands r3, r0, #7 << 21) > ALT_UP( ands r3, r0, #7 << 27) > ALT_SMP(mov r3, r3, lsr #20) > ALT_UP( mov r3, r3, lsr #26) > > re-arrange this as a shift and then mask. The masking is the same for > each field which we want to extract, so this allows the mask to be > shared amongst code paths: > > mrc p15, 1, r0, c0, c0, 1 > ALT_SMP(mov r3, r0, lsr #20) > ALT_UP( mov r3, r0, lsr #26) > ands r3, r3, #7 << 1 It looks fine. Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas