Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] arm: add new asm macro update_sctlr

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On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 10:34:15AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 01:12:47PM +0000, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> > Oh, that's neat - thanks!
> > 
> > Well, given that, I can think of two less horrible options:
> > 1)
> > 	.macro  update_sctlr, tmp:req, set=, clear=
> >         mrc	p15, 0, \tmp, c1, c0, 0
> > 	.ifnc	\set,
> >         orr	\tmp, \set
> > 	.endif
> > 	.ifnc	\clear,
> > 	mvn	\clear, \clear
> > 	and	\tmp, \tmp, \clear
> 
> Can't you use bic here?

Yeah.

> > 	.endif
> >         mcr	p15, 0, \tmp, c1, c0, 0
> > 	.endm
> > 
> > With the two call sites in uefi_phys.S as:
> > 
> > 	ldr	r5, =(CR_M)
> > 	update_sctlr	r12, , r5
> > and
> > 	ldr	r4, =(CR_I | CR_C | CR_M)
> > 	update_sctlr	r12, r4
> 
> These ldr= could be movs, right?

The first one could.
The second one could be movw on armv7+.

> If so, I definitely prefer this to putting an ldr = into the macro itself
> (option 2).

And your preference between 1) and 2) is?

/
    Leif
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