[PATCH RFCv3 08/14] arm64: introduce aarch64_insn_gen_movewide()

[Z Lim]

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On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:41:02AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:04:22PM +0100, Zi Shen Lim wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 05:17:15PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 07:25:06AM +0100, Zi Shen Lim wrote:
> > > > Introduce function to generate move wide (immediate) instructions.
[...]
> > > > +       switch (variant) {
> > > > +       case AARCH64_INSN_VARIANT_32BIT:
> > > > +               BUG_ON(shift != 0 && shift != 16);
> > > > +               break;
> > > > +       case AARCH64_INSN_VARIANT_64BIT:
> > > > +               insn |= BIT(31);
> > > > +               BUG_ON(shift != 0 && shift != 16 && shift != 32 &&
> > > > +                      shift != 48);
> > >
> > > Would be neater as a nested switch, perhaps? If you reorder the
> > > outer-switch, you could probably fall-through too and combine the shift
> > > checks.
> >
> > Not sure I picture what you had in mind... I couldn't come up with a
> > neater version with the properties you described.
> >
> > The alternative I had was using masks instead of integer values, but
> > one could argue that while neater, it could also be harder to read:
> >
> >     switch (variant) {
> >     case AARCH64_INSN_VARIANT_32BIT:
> >             BUG_ON(shift & ~BIT(4));
> >             break;
> >     case AARCH64_INSN_VARIANT_64BIT:
> >             insn |= BIT(31);
> >             BUG_ON(shift & ~GENMASK(5, 4));
> >     ...
>
> I was thinking of using nested switches, but that doesn't fall out like I
> hoped. How about:
>
>       switch (variant) {
>       case AARCH64_INSN_VARIANT_64BIT:
>               BUG_ON(shift != 32 && shift != 48);

Sorry this won't work. For example, on the valid case of shift==0,
we'll barf right here - no fallthrough.

Shall we just leave the code as is? :)


>       case AARCH64_INSN_VARIANT_32BIT:
>               BUG_ON(shift != 0 && shift != 16);
>       };
>
> ?
>
> Will