[PATCH v8 05/22] RISC-V: Define indirect CSR access helpers

[Atish Patra]

On 8/7/26 6:04 PM, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Aug 2026, Atish Patra wrote:
>
>> On 8/4/26 5:39 PM, Paul Walmsley wrote:
>>> On Wed, 1 Jul 2026, Atish Patra wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Atish Patra <atishp at rivosinc.com>
>>>>
>>>> The indirect CSR requires multiple instructions to read/write CSR.
>>>> Add a few helper functions for ease of usage.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atishp at rivosinc.com>
>>> Thanks.  These macros seem better implemented as static inline functions.
>>> That also nicely aligns the code with what you write in the patch
>>> description.
>> I don't think inlining these macros in the following way will work because of
>> the following reason. It won't build once anything calls it.
>>
>> csr_read()/csr_write() stringify the CSR argument straight into the inline asm
>> template:
> Yes, you're right; I should have caught that.  Too bad, there are multiple
> keyhole CSR index registers in use, otherwise it would have been a
> reasonable thing to do.
>
> What's up with the subsequent followup message?  Looks like a
> cut-and-paste from an LLM.
Oops. Ha ha. LLM agent was parsing the lore and preparing a draft response.
It produced so much garbage that I replied manually. I have no idea what 
prompted
it to send it after I sent the response! Sorry for the spam.
>
> - Paul