From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel•crashing.org>,
Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup•eu>
Cc: Rohan McLure <rmclure@linux•ibm.com>,
"linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org>,
"npiggin@gmail•com" <npiggin@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] powerpc: Add ZERO_GPRS macros for register clears
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:31:01 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yl3dfy2.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220613184830.GW25951@gate.crashing.org>
Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel•crashing.org> writes:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 08:42:27AM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> Le 10/06/2022 à 05:32, Rohan McLure a écrit :
>> > .macro ZERO_REGS start, end
>> > .Lreg=\start
>> > .rept (\end - \start + 1)
>> > li .Lreg, 0
>> > .Lreg=.Lreg+1
>> > .endr
>> > .endm
>>
>> I'd have a preference for using a verb, for instance ZEROISE_REGS or
>> CLEAR_REGS
>
> "Zero" is a verb as well (as well as a noun and an adjective) :-)
And "clear" is also a verb and an adjective, though helpfully the noun
is "clearing" :D
We could use "nullify", that has some existing usage in the kernel,
although I don't really mind, "zeroise" sounds kind of cool :)
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-14 4:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-01 5:48 [PATCH 1/6] powerpc: Add ZERO_GPRS macros for register clears Rohan McLure
2022-06-01 5:48 ` [PATCH 2/6] powerpc: Provide syscall wrapper Rohan McLure
2022-06-01 8:29 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-06-09 13:06 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-06-16 5:42 ` Rohan McLure
2022-06-16 7:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-01 8:59 ` kernel test robot
2022-06-01 9:35 ` kernel test robot
2022-06-01 12:23 ` kernel test robot
2022-06-01 14:33 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-06-03 3:24 ` Rohan McLure
2022-06-03 7:09 ` Andrew Donnellan
2022-06-03 8:39 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-06-14 13:57 ` Andrew Donnellan
2022-06-03 9:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-15 1:47 ` Rohan McLure
2022-06-15 10:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-06-01 5:48 ` [PATCH 3/6] powerpc: Make syscalls save and restore gprs Rohan McLure
2022-06-01 8:33 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-06-01 5:48 ` [PATCH 4/6] powerpc: Fix comment, use clear and restore macros Rohan McLure
2022-06-01 5:48 ` [PATCH 5/6] powerpc: Move syscall handler prototypes to header Rohan McLure
2022-06-01 5:48 ` [PATCH 6/6] powerpc/64s: Clear gprs on interrupt routine entry Rohan McLure
2022-06-01 8:37 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-06-01 7:45 ` [PATCH 1/6] powerpc: Add ZERO_GPRS macros for register clears Christophe Leroy
2022-06-01 16:00 ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-06-10 3:32 ` Rohan McLure
2022-06-10 14:05 ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-06-11 8:42 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-06-13 18:48 ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-06-14 4:31 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2022-06-14 11:43 ` Segher Boessenkool
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