linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/9] tty: serial: amba: Use linux/{bits,bitfield}.h macros

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Message-Id: <CXIAOLFK6TFO.1J0V4C5I03Q5F@bootlin.com>
Date:   Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:58:12 +0100
From:   Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@...tlin.com>
To:     Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Russell King" <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        "LKML" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-serial" <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Grégory Clement <gregory.clement@...tlin.com>,
        "Alexandre Belloni" <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        "Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
        "Vladimir Kondratiev" <vladimir.kondratiev@...ileye.com>,
        "Tawfik Bayouk" <tawfik.bayouk@...ileye.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/9] tty: serial: amba: Use linux/{bits,bitfield}.h
 macros

Hello,

On Thu Dec 7, 2023 at 10:56 AM CET, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2023, Théo Lebrun wrote:
> > On Thu Dec 7, 2023 at 2:37 AM CET, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 03:07:14PM +0100, Théo Lebrun wrote:
> > > > The driver uses bit shifts and hexadecimal expressions to declare
> > > > constants. Replace that with the BIT(), GENMASK() & FIELD_PREP_CONST()
> > > > macros to clarify intent.
> > > > 
> > > > Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> > > > Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@...tlin.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  include/linux/amba/serial.h | 248 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> > > >  1 file changed, 127 insertions(+), 121 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > As 0-day had a problem with this patch, I've applied only patch 1 of
> > > this series.  Can you fix it up and rebase and resend the rest again
> > > (while adding the collected reviewed-by that some patches in this series
> > > had)?
> > 
> > So the issue is this: the header file gets included in
> > arch/arm/include/debug/pl01x.S that gets included in arch/arm/kernel/debug.S
> > (see #include CONFIG_DEBUG_LL_INCLUDE).
> > 
> > I don't see any easy way out of this, so I guess it means the patch must be
> > dropped. If someone confirms that there are indeed no solution to have BIT(),
> > GENMASK() & FIELD_PREP_CONST() accessible from assembly, I'll send the next
> > version.
>
> Yeah, it seems to require UART01x_FR_TXFF and UART01x_FR_BUSY, plus 
> UART01x_DR and UART01x_FR that are not touched by your patch.
>
> I suppose the rest might be convertable though..

Thanks Greg and Ilpo! v6 has been sent.

Regards,

--
Théo Lebrun, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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