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From: Ignacio Encinas Rubio <ignacio@iencinas.com>
To: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Cc: linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linux.dev, skhan@linuxfoundation.org,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: riscv: fix v_exec_initval_nolibc.c
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 07:31:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f3bde84d-b53e-4b81-b995-3b81d614b789@iencinas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Z8jG1ViOUbw79cEN@ghost>



On 5/3/25 22:49, Charlie Jenkins wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 05:39:28PM +0100, Ignacio Encinas wrote:
>> Vector registers are zero initialized by the kernel. Stop accepting
>> "all ones" as a clean value.
>>
>> Note that this was not working as expected given that
>> 	value == 0xff
>> can be assumed to be always false by the compiler as value's range is
>> [-128, 127]. Both GCC (-Wtype-limits) and clang
>> (-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare) warn about this.
> 
> This check was included because the "dirty" value is an implementation
> detail that I believe is not strongly defined in the ABI. Since linux
> does always set this value to zero (currently) we can safely remove this
> check. 

Thanks for the review. Just after sending the patch I noticed it should
also remove some code that becomes useless after this change: 
_prev_value_ and _first_ variables were only needed because two "clean" 
values were supported.

I'll send a v2 tomorrow. I'm guessing keeping your "Reviewed-by" and
"Tested-by" is the appropriate thing to do as the changes are very
simple. Let me know if that's not the case.

Thanks again!

  reply	other threads:[~2025-03-06  6:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-05 16:39 [PATCH] selftests: riscv: fix v_exec_initval_nolibc.c Ignacio Encinas
2025-03-05 21:49 ` Charlie Jenkins
2025-03-06  6:31   ` Ignacio Encinas Rubio [this message]
2025-03-06  8:49     ` Charlie Jenkins

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