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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 7/8] xen/arm: vgic: Introduce helpers to
 read/write/clear/set vGIC register ...
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On 29/09/15 15:24, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 14:48 +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>> On 29/09/15 14:23, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2015-09-25 at 15:51 +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>>>> and use them in the vGIC emulation.
>>>>
>>>> The GIC registers may support different access sizes. Rather than
>>>> open
>>>> coding the access for every registers, provide a set of helpers to
>>>> access
>>>> them.
>>>>
>>>> The caller will have to call vgic_regN_* where N is the size of the
>>>> emulated registers.
>>>
>>> These helpers end up as e.g. vgic_regN_read/write, but they don't
>>> really
>>> read or write anything, they just extract the required bits into a
>>> register
>>> or update the bits into a variable.
>>>
>>> Can we think of a better name? encode/decode?
>>
>> Encode/decode would be the best. I will replace read by decode and write
>> by encode.

Just to keep track, as discussed IRL, I will finally use extract/update.
The former will be used when the guest read the GIC MMIO, the latter
when it will write.

Regards,

-- 
Julien Grall