Re: [PATCHv8,1/4] add basic register-field manipulation macros

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>]

Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> wrote:
> Common approach to accessing register fields is to define
> structures or sets of macros containing mask and shift pair.
> Operations on the register are then performed as follows:
> 
>  field = (reg >> shift) & mask;
> 
>  reg &= ~(mask << shift);
>  reg |= (field & mask) << shift;
> 
> Defining shift and mask separately is tedious.  Ivo van Doorn
> came up with an idea of computing them at compilation time
> based on a single shifted mask (later refined by Felix) which
> can be used like this:
> 
>  #define REG_FIELD 0x000ff000
> 
>  field = FIELD_GET(REG_FIELD, reg);
> 
>  reg &= ~REG_FIELD;
>  reg |= FIELD_PREP(REG_FIELD, field);
> 
> FIELD_{GET,PREP} macros take care of finding out what the
> appropriate shift is based on compilation time ffs operation.
> 
> GENMASK can be used to define registers (which is usually
> less error-prone and easier to match with datasheets).
> 
> This approach is the most convenient I've seen so to limit code
> multiplication let's move the macros to a global header file.
> Attempts to use static inlines instead of macros failed due
> to false positive triggering of BUILD_BUG_ON()s, especially with
> GCC < 6.0.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dinan Gunawardena <dinan.gunawardena@netronome.com>

Thanks, 4 patches applied to wireless-drivers-next.git:

3e9b3112ec74 add basic register-field manipulation macros
faad5433b722 mt7601u: remove redefinition of GENMASK
adcc710d0a9e mt7601u: remove unnecessary include
d43af50566b4 mt7601u: use linux/bitfield.h

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