Re: [RFC PATCH 06/13] arm64: percpu: Add infrastructure for preemptible this_cpu_*() ops

From: Peter Zijlstra

Date: Tue Jul 28 2026 - 13:34:43 EST


On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 04:53:52PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:

> > > +#define ____PCPU_GPRS_BEGIN(gprs, pcp, off, addr) \
> > > + __DEFINE_ASM_GPR_NUMS \
> > > + __DEFINE_ASM_GPR_ALIASES \
> > > + " mov w" off ", #" __VAL_PCPU_GPRS(pcp, off, addr) "\n" \
> > > + " strh w" off ", " gprs "\n" \
> > > + __KERN_ASM_CPU_OFFSET(off) "\n"
> >
> > Can this macro also generate a readable comment for those few of us
> > building the .i file ?
>
> Do you mean for __VAL_PCPU_GPRS, or ____PCPU_GPRS_BEGIN() ?

I was thinking BEGIN, but whatever is easiest, the __VAL thing is only
ever used in BEGIN anyway.

> I can happily add comments for either (and the corresponding ENDs).

Not sure the comment makes sense for end, that's simply storing 0 and
seems clear enough.