Re: [PATCH 02/18] arm64: move SCTLR_EL{1,2} assertions to <asm/sysreg.h>

[Robin Murphy]

On 14/05/18 12:20, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 11:08:59AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 11:00:53AM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:46:24AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > > > -/* Check all the bits are accounted for */
> > > > -#define SCTLR_EL2_BUILD_BUG_ON_MISSING_BITS	BUILD_BUG_ON((SCTLR_EL2_SET ^ SCTLR_EL2_CLEAR) != ~0)
> > > > -
> > > > +#if (SCTLR_EL2_SET ^ SCTLR_EL2_CLEAR) != 0xffffffff
> > > > +#error "Inconsistent SCTLR_EL2 set/clear bits"
> > > > +#endif
> > >
> > > Can we have a comment on the != 0xffffffff versus != ~0 here?
> > >
> > > The subtle differences in evaluation semantics between #if and
> > > other contexts here may well trip people up during maintenance...
> >
> > Do you have any suggestion as to the wording?
> >
> > I'm happy to add a comment, but I don't really know what to say.
>
>
> How about the following?
>
> /* Watch out for #if evaluation rules: ~0 is not ~(int)0! */

Or, more formally, perhaps something even less vague like "Note that in 
preprocessor arithmetic these constants are effectively of type 
intmax_t, which is 64-bit, thus ~0 is not what we want."

Robin.