Re: [PATCH v6 01/11] ARM: sunxi: smp: Move assembly code into a file

[Chen-Yu Tsai]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 7:17 PM, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:12:41AM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 5:50 AM, MylÃne Josserand
>> <mylene.josserand@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Move the assembly code for cluster cache enabling and resuming
>> > into an assembly file instead of having it directly in C code.
>> >
>> > Remove the CFLAGS because we are using the ARM directive "arch"
>> > instead.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: MylÃne Josserand <mylene.josserand@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> >  arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Makefile  |  4 +--
>> >  arch/arm/mach-sunxi/headsmp.S | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> >  arch/arm/mach-sunxi/mc_smp.c  | 82 +++----------------------------------------
>> >  3 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)
>> >  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-sunxi/headsmp.S
>>
>> I'm still not convinced about this whole "move ASM to separate
>> file" thing, especially now that you aren't actually adding any
>> sunxi-specific ASM code beyond a simple function call.
>>
>> Could you drop this for now?
>
> I'd really like to have this merged actually. There's a significant
> readibility improvement, so even if there's no particular functional
> improvement, I'd still call it a win.

What parts do you consider hard to read? The extra quotes? Trailing
newline? Or perhaps the __stringify bits?

ChenYu