Re: [PATCH 1/3] RISC-V: Add separate asm/encoding.h for spec related defines

[Anup Patel]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 1:23 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 07:39:35AM +0000, Anup Patel wrote:
> > It's better to have all RISC-V spec related defines in one place
> > so this patch adds separate asm/encoding.h for such defines which
> > can be included in assembly as well as C code.
>
> <asm/csr.h> can be included from assembly just fine already.
> and we already do that.  So I don't really see much of a point
> in splitting it.

We would be also having #defines which will help us decode
load/store instructions as well. This will be used for load/store
emulation for MMIO devices in KVM hypervisor.

Consider this patch as preparatory patch for the KVM support
we are working on.

Regards,
Anup