From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9756C4338F for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2021 14:31:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [112.213.38.117]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 27BB3611C3 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2021 14:31:24 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 mail.kernel.org 27BB3611C3 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=kernel.crashing.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lists.ozlabs.org Received: from boromir.ozlabs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4Gh7Fl3HVNz3dHM for ; Sat, 7 Aug 2021 00:31:23 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; spf=permerror (SPF Permanent Error: Unknown mechanism found: ip:192.40.192.88/32) smtp.mailfrom=kernel.crashing.org (client-ip=63.228.1.57; helo=gate.crashing.org; envelope-from=segher@kernel.crashing.org; receiver=) Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4Gh7FJ2wlbz3bn8 for ; Sat, 7 Aug 2021 00:30:58 +1000 (AEST) Received: from gate.crashing.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gate.crashing.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id 176EQjC0006372; Fri, 6 Aug 2021 09:26:45 -0500 Received: (from segher@localhost) by gate.crashing.org (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id 176EQikA006370; Fri, 6 Aug 2021 09:26:44 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: gate.crashing.org: segher set sender to segher@kernel.crashing.org using -f Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2021 09:26:43 -0500 From: Segher Boessenkool To: Michael Ellerman Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] powerpc: Optimize register usage for esr register Message-ID: <20210806142643.GU1583@gate.crashing.org> References: <20210726143053.532839-1-sxwjean@me.com> <874kc3njxh.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <874kc3njxh.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com, sxwjean@me.com, Xiongwei Song , aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com, oleg@redhat.com, npiggin@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peterx@redhat.com, paulus@samba.org, efremov@linux.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, sandipan@linux.ibm.com Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 04:53:14PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > But I'm not sure about the use of anonymous unions in UAPI headers. Old > compilers don't support them, so there's a risk of breakage. More precisely, it exists only since C11, so even with all not-so-ancient compilers it will not work if the user uses (say) -std=c99, which still is popular. > I'd rather we didn't touch the uapi version. Yeah. > > - err = ___do_page_fault(regs, regs->dar, regs->dsisr); > > + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_4xx) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BOOKE)) > > + err = ___do_page_fault(regs, regs->dar, regs->esr); > > + else > > + err = ___do_page_fault(regs, regs->dar, regs->dsisr); > > As Christophe said, I don't thinks this is an improvement. > > It makes the code less readable. If anyone is confused about what is > passed to ___do_page_fault() they can either read the comment above it, > or look at the definition of pt_regs to see that esr and dsisr share > storage. Esp. since the affected platforms are legacy, yup. Segher