linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 3/7] mips: rename macros and files from '64' to 'n64'

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Message-ID: <CALxhOng7EzAd2zHKAOj3ipEd6y=DpS2JGo34s4V_cWVgmLjPwg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:15:19 +0530
From:   Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org>
To:     Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>
Cc:     linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        y2038 Mailman List <y2038@...ts.linaro.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>,
        Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin.juszkiewicz@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/7] mips: rename macros and files from '64' to 'n64'

Hi Paul,

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 01:21, Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Firoz,
>
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 10:48:24AM +0530, Firoz Khan wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/sgidefs.h b/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/sgidefs.h
> > index 26143e3..0364eec 100644
> > --- a/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/sgidefs.h
> > +++ b/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/sgidefs.h
> > @@ -40,6 +40,6 @@
> >   */
> >  #define _MIPS_SIM_ABI32              1
> >  #define _MIPS_SIM_NABI32     2
> > -#define _MIPS_SIM_ABI64              3
> > +#define _MIPS_SIM_ABIN64     3
>
> Whilst I agree with changing our own definitions & filenames to use n64,
> this macro actually reflects naming used by the toolchain. ie:
>
>     $ mips-linux-gcc -mips64 -mabi=64 -dM -E - </dev/null | grep ABI64
>     #define _ABI64 3
>     #define _MIPS_SIM _ABI64
>
> Our macro here is used to compare against _MIPS_SIM provided by the
> toolchain, so for consistency I think we should keep the same name for
> the macro that the toolchain uses.

Will this below change will help?

 #define _MIPS_SIM_ABI32              1
 #define _MIPS_SIM_NABI32            2
 #define _MIPS_SIM_ABI64              3
+#define _MIPS_SIM_ABIN64           _MIPS_SIM_ABI64

Thanks
Firoz

>
> And I realise that undoing that but keeping n64 in our own filenames &
> macros is another type of inconsistency, but something imperfect is
> unavoidable at this point given that the engineers way back when decided
> to use "ABI64" for n64.
>
> Thanks,
>     Paul