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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] linux/bits.h: make BIT(), GENMASK(), and friends available in assembly
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 05:34:11PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> BIT(), GENMASK(), etc. are useful to define register bits of hardware.
> However, low-level code is often written in assembly, where they are
> not available due to the hard-coded 1UL, 0UL.
>
> In fact, in-kernel headers such as arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
> use _BITUL() instead of BIT() so that the register bit macros are
> available in assembly.
>
> Using macros in include/uapi/linux/const.h have two reasons:
>
> [1] For use in uapi headers
> We should use underscore-prefixed variants for user-space.
>
> [2] For use in assembly code
> Since _BITUL() does not use hard-coded 1UL, it can be used as an
> alternative of BIT().
>
> For [2], it is pretty easy to change BIT() etc. for use in assembly.
>
> This allows to replace _BUTUL() in kernel headers with BIT().
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
> ---
>
> include/linux/bits.h | 17 ++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

Will

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