[PATCH v3 3/6] arm64: tlb: Convert the opencoded field modify

Jie Luo quic_luoj at quicinc.com
Wed Apr 23 06:15:37 PDT 2025



On 4/18/2025 2:11 AM, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 06:47:10PM +0800, Luo Jie wrote:
>> Replaced below code with the wrapper FIELD_MODIFY(MASK, &reg, val)
>> - reg &= ~MASK;
>> - reg |= FIELD_PREP(MASK, val);
>> The semantic patch that makes this change is available
>> in scripts/coccinelle/misc/field_modify.cocci.
>>
>> More information about semantic patching is available at
>> https://coccinelle.gitlabpages.inria.fr/website
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Luo Jie <quic_luoj at quicinc.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 3 +--
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h
>> index eba1a98657f1..0d250ef4161c 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h
>> @@ -112,8 +112,7 @@ static inline unsigned long get_trans_granule(void)
>>   	    level >= 0 && level <= 3) {					\
>>   		u64 ttl = level & 3;					\
>>   		ttl |= get_trans_granule() << 2;			\
>> -		arg &= ~TLBI_TTL_MASK;					\
>> -		arg |= FIELD_PREP(TLBI_TTL_MASK, ttl);			\
>> +		FIELD_MODIFY(TLBI_TTL_MASK, &arg, ttl);			\
> 
> This could equally be:
> 		arg = u64_replace_bits(arg, ttl, TLBI_TTL_MASK);
> 
> which already exists, so doesn't require a new macro to be introduced.
> 
Looks like the new macro FIELD_MODIFY() is accepted by Yury, maybe we
can keep to use FIELD_MODIFY() with this change for better readability?



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