[PATCH v4 2/5] KVM: selftests: aarch64: Move pmu helper functions into vpmu.h

Oliver Upton oliver.upton at linux.dev
Thu Feb 1 23:44:56 PST 2024


On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 09:56:51PM -0500, Shaoqin Huang wrote:
> -static uint64_t get_pmcr_n(uint64_t pmcr)
> -{
> -	return FIELD_GET(ARMV8_PMU_PMCR_N, pmcr);
> -}
> -
> -static void set_pmcr_n(uint64_t *pmcr, uint64_t pmcr_n)
> -{
> -	u64p_replace_bits((__u64 *) pmcr, pmcr_n, ARMV8_PMU_PMCR_N);
> -}
> -
> -static uint64_t get_counters_mask(uint64_t n)
> -{
> -	uint64_t mask = BIT(ARMV8_PMU_CYCLE_IDX);
> -
> -	if (n)
> -		mask |= GENMASK(n - 1, 0);
> -	return mask;
> -}

I don't see these helpers being used by your test, and they seem rather
specific to what the original test was trying to accomplish. Let's not
move this unnecessarily.

-- 
Thanks,
Oliver



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