[PATCH v2 04/31] arm64: MMU definitions

[Catalin Marinas]

Hi Arnd,

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 02:30:01PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 August 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > +/*
> > + * TCR flags.
> > + */
> > +#define TCR_TxSZ(x)		(((64 - (x)) << 16) | ((64 - (x)) << 0))
> > +#define TCR_IRGN_NC		((0 << 8) | (0 << 24))
> > +#define TCR_IRGN_WBWA		((1 << 8) | (1 << 24))
> > +#define TCR_IRGN_WT		((2 << 8) | (2 << 24))
> > +#define TCR_IRGN_WBnWA		((3 << 8) | (3 << 24))
> > +#define TCR_IRGN_MASK		((3 << 8) | (3 << 24))
> > +#define TCR_ORGN_NC		((0 << 10) | (0 << 26))
> > +#define TCR_ORGN_WBWA		((1 << 10) | (1 << 26))
> > +#define TCR_ORGN_WT		((2 << 10) | (2 << 26))
> > +#define TCR_ORGN_WBnWA		((3 << 10) | (3 << 26))
> > +#define TCR_ORGN_MASK		((3 << 10) | (3 << 26))
> > +#define TCR_SHARED		((3 << 12) | (3 << 28))
> > +#define TCR_TG0_64K		(1 << 14)
> > +#define TCR_TG1_64K		(1 << 30)
> > +#define TCR_IPS_40BIT		(2 << 32)
> > +#define TCR_ASID16		(1 << 36)
> > +
> 
> As a matter of coding style, I would much prefer tables like this to be
> written as
> 
> #define TCR_IRGN_MASK		0x0000000003000300
> #define TCR_IRGN_WBnWA		0x0000000003000300
> #define TCR_IRGN_WT		0x0000000002000200
> #define TCR_IRGN_WBWA		0x0000000001000100
> #define TCR_IRGN_NC		0x0000000000000000
> 
> #define TCR_ORGN_MASK		0x000000000c000c00
> #define TCR_ORGN_WBnWA		0x000000000c000c00
> #define TCR_ORGN_WT		0x0000000008000800
> #define TCR_ORGN_WBWA		0x0000000004000400
> #define TCR_ORGN_NC		0x0000000000000000
> 
> The advantage of this is that you can visually compare the bitmasks
> to a hex dump, and if you are suffering from endian-confused documentation
> authors, there is no ambiguity about which end of the word is bit zero.

That depends on the case, in some places it's more readable like this.
In the above case, I find it easier to compare against the documentation
which, for example, has groups of 2 bits at position 8 and 24 or 10 and
26 (for TTBR0 and TTBR1). The meaning of a group of 2 bits is described
separately as 0b00 (NC), 0b01(WBWA) etc. Same goes for the shareability
bits (12 and 28).

So I think at least for code writing it's less error-prone to write the
explicit bit position than a magic long hex.

-- 
Catalin