linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] RISC-V: add Bitmanip/Scalar Crypto parsing from DT

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Message-ID: <20230628-dragonish-lullaby-b44d2df09d66@spud>
Date:   Wed, 28 Jun 2023 18:24:40 +0100
From:   Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
To:     Evan Green <evan@...osinc.com>
Cc:     Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>,
        Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...osinc.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        "Hongren (Zenithal) Zheng" <i@...ithal.me>, linux@...osinc.com,
        Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>,
        Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@...ll.eu>,
        Anup Patel <apatel@...tanamicro.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Guo Ren <guoren@...nel.org>,
        Atish Patra <atishp@...osinc.com>,
        Björn Töpel <bjorn@...osinc.com>,
        Jiatai He <jiatai2021@...as.ac.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] RISC-V: add Bitmanip/Scalar Crypto parsing from DT

On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 10:18:34AM -0700, Evan Green wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 4:10 AM Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 12:01:11PM +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 07:48:15PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 11:14:30AM -0700, Evan Green wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 7:38 AM Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...osinc.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > > It would be nice to consolidate the ones together that search for a
> > > > > single string and set multiple bits, though I don't have any super
> > > > > elegant ideas for how off the top of my head.
> > > >
> > > > I've got a refactor of this code in progress, dropping all of these
> > > > copy-paste in place of a loop. It certainly looks more elegant than
> > > > this, but it will fall over a bit for these "one string matches many
> > > > extensions" cases. See here:
> > > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-riscv/patch/20230626-thieving-jockstrap-d35d20b535c5@wendy/
> > > > My immediate thought is to add another element to riscv_isa_ext_data,
> > > > that contains "parent" extensions to check for. Should be fairly doable,
> > > > I'll whip something up on top of that...
> > >
> > > Nice, and thanks for the review.
> >
> > > Should I wait for your refactor to be merged before pushing this one?
> >
> > I don't know. I think that you should continue on with your series here,
> > and whichever goes in second gets rebased on top of the other.
> > I don't think it makes material difference to review of this patchset as
> > to whether you rebase on top of what I'm working on, so I wouldn't
> > bother until it gets merged.
> >
> > Rather hacky, had less time than expected this morning:
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/conor/linux.git/commit/?h=riscv-extensions-strings-supersets
> > Clearly there's issues with looping to RISCV_ISA_MAX_SUPERSETS & I just
> > repurposed Zicsr for the sake of testing something in the time I had.
> >
> > Evan, at a high level, does that look more elegant to you, or have I made
> > things worse?
> >
> 
> I see what you're going for at least. It's unfortunate that when
> someone bumps up RISCV_ISA_MAX_SUPERSETS it squares the whole array.
> Another way to go might be to define the elements in a separate array,
> like:
> 
> unsigned int riscv_zks_exts[] = {
>        RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZBKB,
>        RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZBKC,
>        ....
> };
> 
> then the macro entry looks like:
> 
> SET_ISA_EXT_MAP_MULTI("zks", riscv_zks_exts),
> 
> where the SET_ISA_EXT_MAP_MULTI() could use ARRAY_SIZE() to stash both
> the pointer to the array and the number of elements.

Yup, I like the sound of that. I like the variadic stuff as it'd not
require defining a bunch of sub-arrays of supersets. I guess if it grows
too badly, we can just dump it off into another file or w/e.

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