[PATCH v5 1/6] riscv: asm: alternative-macros: Introduce ALTERNATIVE_3() macro

Lad, Prabhakar prabhakar.csengg at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 09:49:32 PST 2022


Hi Geert,

Thank you for the review.

On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 5:21 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Prabhakar,
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 12:58 PM Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > From: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj at bp.renesas.com>
> >
> > Introduce ALTERNATIVE_3() macro.
> >
> > A vendor wants to replace an old_content, but another vendor has used
> > ALTERNATIVE_2() to patch its customized content at the same location.
> > In this case, this vendor can use macro ALTERNATIVE_3() and then replace
> > ALTERNATIVE_2() with ALTERNATIVE_3() to append its customized content.
> >
> > While at it update comment above ALTERNATIVE_2() macro and make it generic
> > so that the comment holds good for any new addition of ALTERNATIVE_X()
> > macros.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj at bp.renesas.com>
> > ---
> > v4->v5
> > * Rebased the patch on top of Andrew's series (now in Palmers for next-branch)
> > * Updated comment for ALTERNATIVE_x() as suggested by Heiko
>
> Thanks for the update!
>
> > --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/alternative-macros.h
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/alternative-macros.h
> > @@ -50,8 +50,17 @@
> >         ALT_NEW_CONTENT \vendor_id_2, \errata_id_2, \enable_2, \new_c_2
> >  .endm
> >
> > +.macro ALTERNATIVE_CFG_3 old_c, new_c_1, vendor_id_1, errata_id_1, enable_1,   \
> > +                               new_c_2, vendor_id_2, errata_id_2, enable_2,    \
> > +                               new_c_3, vendor_id_3, errata_id_3, enable_3
> > +       ALTERNATIVE_CFG_2 \old_c, \new_c_1, \vendor_id_1, \errata_id_1, \enable_1,      \
> > +                                 \new_c_2, \vendor_id_2, \errata_id_2, \enable_2
> > +       ALT_NEW_CONTENT \vendor_id_3, \errata_id_3, \enable_3, \new_c_3
> > +.endm
> > +
> >  #define __ALTERNATIVE_CFG(...)         ALTERNATIVE_CFG __VA_ARGS__
> >  #define __ALTERNATIVE_CFG_2(...)       ALTERNATIVE_CFG_2 __VA_ARGS__
> > +#define __ALTERNATIVE_CFG_3(...)       ALTERNATIVE_CFG_3 __VA_ARGS__
> >
> >  #else /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
> >
> > @@ -98,6 +107,13 @@
> >         __ALTERNATIVE_CFG(old_c, new_c_1, vendor_id_1, errata_id_1, enable_1)   \
> >         ALT_NEW_CONTENT(vendor_id_2, errata_id_2, enable_2, new_c_2)
> >
> > +#define __ALTERNATIVE_CFG_3(old_c, new_c_1, vendor_id_1, errata_id_1, enable_1,        \
> > +                                  new_c_2, vendor_id_2, errata_id_2, enable_2, \
> > +                                  new_c_3, vendor_id_3, errata_id_3, enable_3) \
> > +       __ALTERNATIVE_CFG_2(old_c, new_c_1, vendor_id_1, errata_id_1, enable_1, \
> > +                                   new_c_2, vendor_id_2, errata_id_2, enable_2)        \
> > +       ALT_NEW_CONTENT(vendor_id_3, errata_id_3, enable_3, new_c_3)
> > +
> >  #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
> >
> >  #define _ALTERNATIVE_CFG(old_c, new_c, vendor_id, errata_id, CONFIG_k) \
> > @@ -108,6 +124,13 @@
> >         __ALTERNATIVE_CFG_2(old_c, new_c_1, vendor_id_1, errata_id_1, IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_k_1),   \
> >                                    new_c_2, vendor_id_2, errata_id_2, IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_k_2))
> >
> > +#define _ALTERNATIVE_CFG_3(old_c, new_c_1, vendor_id_1, errata_id_1, CONFIG_k_1,               \
> > +                                 new_c_2, vendor_id_2, errata_id_2, CONFIG_k_2,                \
> > +                                 new_c_3, vendor_id_3, errata_id_3, CONFIG_k_3)                \
> > +       __ALTERNATIVE_CFG_3(old_c, new_c_1, vendor_id_1, errata_id_1, IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_k_1),   \
> > +                                  new_c_2, vendor_id_2, errata_id_2, IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_k_2),   \
> > +                                  new_c_3, vendor_id_3, errata_id_3, IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_k_3))
> > +
> >  #else /* CONFIG_RISCV_ALTERNATIVE */
>
> To avoid breaking the build for K210 (and VexRiscv), you need to provide
> _ALTERNATIVE_CFG_3() for the !CONFIG_RISCV_ALTERNATIVE case, too:
>
Thanks for testing this.

> @@ -144,6 +144,9 @@
>  #define _ALTERNATIVE_CFG_2(old_c, ...) \
>         ALTERNATIVE_CFG old_c
>
> +#define _ALTERNATIVE_CFG_3(old_c, ...) \
> +       ALTERNATIVE_CFG old_c
> +
>  #else /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
>
>  #define __ALTERNATIVE_CFG(old_c)       \
> @@ -155,6 +158,9 @@
>  #define _ALTERNATIVE_CFG_2(old_c, ...) \
>         __ALTERNATIVE_CFG(old_c)
>
> +#define _ALTERNATIVE_CFG_3(old_c, ...) \
> +       __ALTERNATIVE_CFG(old_c)
> +
>  #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
>  #endif /* CONFIG_RISCV_ALTERNATIVE */
>
> Else it fails (on riscv/for-next) with:
>
I'll include the above hunk in next version.

> arch/riscv/mm/pmem.c: In function ‘arch_wb_cache_pmem’:
> arch/riscv/include/asm/alternative-macros.h:198:8: error: expected
> string literal before ‘_ALTERNATIVE_CFG_3’
>   198 |        _ALTERNATIVE_CFG_3(old_content, new_content_1,
> vendor_id_1, errata_id_1, CONFIG_k_1, \
>       |        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> arch/riscv/include/asm/errata_list.h:128:14: note: in expansion of
> macro ‘ALTERNATIVE_3’
>   128 | asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE_3(      \
>       |              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> arch/riscv/mm/pmem.c:13:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘ALT_CMO_OP’
>    13 |  ALT_CMO_OP(clean, addr, size, riscv_cbom_block_size, 0, 0);
>       |  ^~~~~~~~~~
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                         Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert at linux-m68k.org
>
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