Re: [PATCH 1/2] Move the pt_regs_offset struct definition from arch to common include file

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Mon Jun 29 2015 - 23:29:19 EST


On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 14:30 -0400, David Long wrote:
> On 06/16/15 09:17, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:42 AM, David Long <dave.long@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> #define REG_OFFSET_NAME(r) \
> >> {.name = #r, .offset = offsetof(struct pt_regs, ARM_##r)}
> >> #define REG_OFFSET_END {.name = NULL, .offset = 0}
> >
> > Can't you also move these? ARM is complicated with the "ARM_"
> > prefixing, but the others appear to be the same. Maybe you can remove
> > the prefix or redefine the macro for ARM.
>
> That would mandate that all the architecture-specific pt_regs structures
> would have to use a top-level named field for each named register.

Why does it mandate that?

See eg. powerpc where we use REG_OFFSET_NAME for the top-level named fields and
then a different macro for the array elements:

#define REG_OFFSET_NAME(r) {.name = #r, .offset = offsetof(struct pt_regs, r)}
#define GPR_OFFSET_NAME(num) \
{.name = STR(gpr##num), .offset = offsetof(struct pt_regs, gpr[num])}

static const struct pt_regs_offset regoffset_table[] = {
GPR_OFFSET_NAME(0),
GPR_OFFSET_NAME(1),
GPR_OFFSET_NAME(2),
GPR_OFFSET_NAME(3),
...
REG_OFFSET_NAME(nip),
REG_OFFSET_NAME(msr),


So I don't see why REG_OFFSET_NAME couldn't be common.

cheers




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