[PATCH v2] arm64: Refactor conditional logic
Anshuman Khandual
anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Thu Nov 14 20:25:35 PST 2024
A small nit.
The subject line could have been more specific to where this
change applies (example below), otherwise it is too broad in
the entire arm64 platform context.
arm64/cpufeature: Refactor conditional logic in init_cpu_ftr_reg()
On 11/14/24 19:52, Hardevsinh Palaniya wrote:
> Unnecessarily checks ftr_ovr == tmp in an extra else if, which is not
> needed because that condition would already be true by default if the
> previous conditions are not satisfied.
>
> if (ftr_ovr != tmp) {
> } else if (ftr_new != tmp) {
> } else if (ftr_ovr == tmp) {
>
> Logic: The first and last conditions are inverses of each other, so
> the last condition must be true if the first two conditions are false.
>
> Additionally, all branches set the variable str, making the subsequent
> "if (str)" check redundant
>
> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Hardevsinh Palaniya <hardevsinh.palaniya at siliconsignals.io>
> ---
>
> Changelog in V2:
>
> - remove str check
>
> Change in V3:
>
> - Add logic in commit msg
> - Add review tag
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 13 ++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> index 718728a85430..728709483fb7 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> @@ -989,17 +989,16 @@ static void init_cpu_ftr_reg(u32 sys_reg, u64 new)
> /* Override was valid */
> ftr_new = tmp;
> str = "forced";
> - } else if (ftr_ovr == tmp) {
> + } else {
> /* Override was the safe value */
> str = "already set";
> }
>
> - if (str)
> - pr_warn("%s[%d:%d]: %s to %llx\n",
> - reg->name,
> - ftrp->shift + ftrp->width - 1,
> - ftrp->shift, str,
> - tmp & (BIT(ftrp->width) - 1));
> + pr_warn("%s[%d:%d]: %s to %llx\n",
> + reg->name,
> + ftrp->shift + ftrp->width - 1,
> + ftrp->shift, str,
> + tmp & (BIT(ftrp->width) - 1));
> } else if ((ftr_mask & reg->override->val) == ftr_mask) {
> reg->override->val &= ~ftr_mask;
> pr_warn("%s[%d:%d]: impossible override, ignored\n",
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
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