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

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Mon May 14 2018 - 09:10:22 EST


On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 01:41:23PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 01:06:10PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 12:56:09PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> > > On 14/05/18 12:20, Dave Martin wrote:
> > > > 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."
> >
> > I'll drop something in the commit message to that effect, rather than a
> > comment.
> >
> > A comment will end up terse and vague or large and bloatsome (and
> > redundant as we have this pattern twice).
> >
> > Anyone attempting to "clean" this up will find things break, and they can
> > look at the git log to find out why it is the way it is...
>
> Fair enough. So long as we say something somewhere, that's
> sufficient for me.
>
> With that,
>
> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx>
>
> (as previously stated).

Cheers!

Mark.