[PATCH 10/19] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Convert userspace accessors over to FIELD_GET/FIELD_PREP
Reiji Watanabe
reijiw at google.com
Tue Jul 12 22:51:25 PDT 2022
On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 10:05 AM Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> The GICv3 userspace accessors are all about dealing with conversion
> between fields from architectural registers and internal representations.
>
> However, and owing to the age of this code, the accessors use
> a combination of shift/mask that is hard to read. It is nonetheless
> easy to make it better by using the FIELD_{GET,PREP} macros that solely
> rely on a mask.
>
> This results in somewhat nicer looking code, and is probably easier
> to maintain.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Reiji Watanabe <reijiw at google.com>
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