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From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome•com>
To: Manoj Gupta <manojgupta@chromium•org>
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium•org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches•com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome•com>,
	Dirk van der Merwe <dirk.vandermerwe@netronome•com>,
	oss-drivers@netronome•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	Renato Golin <renato.golin@linaro•org>,
	Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium•org>,
	Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfp: convert nfp_eth_set_bit_config() into a macro
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 17:56:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171004175603.4ba68737@cakuba.netronome.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAMbb06DaOY1cnSXkuL0ZMSGzpwhfi_3d87mt8FMv+iYKDG03w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 17:38:22 -0700, Manoj Gupta wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 16:16:49 -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:  
> >> > > Thanks for the suggestion. This seems a viable alternative if David
> >> > > and the NFP owners can live without the extra checking provided by
> >> > > __BF_FIELD_CHECK.  
> >> >
> >> > The reason the __BF_FIELD_CHECK refuses to compile non-constant masks
> >> > is that it will require runtime ffs on the mask, which is potentially
> >> > costly.  I would also feel quite stupid adding those macros to the nfp
> >> > driver, given that I specifically created the bitfield.h header to not
> >> > have to reimplement these in every driver I write/maintain.  
> >>
> >> That make sense, thanks for providing more context.
> >>  
> >> > Can you please test the patch I provided in the other reply?  
> >>
> >> With this patch there are no errors when building the kernel with
> >> clang.  
> >
> > Cool, thanks for checking!  I will run it through full tests and queue
> > for upstreaming :)  
> 
> Just to let you know, using __BF_FIELD_CHECK macro will not Link with
> -O0 (GCC or Clang)  since references to __compiletime_assert_xxx will
> not be cleaned up.

Do you mean the current nfp_eth_set_bit_config() will not work with -O0
on either complier, or any use of __BF_FIELD_CHECK() will not compile
with -O0?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-05  0:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-03 20:05 [PATCH] nfp: convert nfp_eth_set_bit_config() into a macro Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-10-03 21:50 ` Jakub Kicinski
2017-10-04 17:42   ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-10-04 17:44     ` David Miller
     [not found]   ` <CAAMbb05G=HBQweiWqYva_9zTnQqAcwMhJ0yYBUi26T04YA4CxQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-10-04 18:17     ` Jakub Kicinski
2017-10-04 18:44       ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-10-24 16:56       ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-10-24 17:03         ` Jakub Kicinski
2017-10-24 17:13           ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-10-04 18:07 ` Joe Perches
2017-10-04 18:49   ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-10-04 22:22     ` Jakub Kicinski
2017-10-04 23:16       ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-10-04 23:25         ` Jakub Kicinski
2017-10-05  0:38           ` Manoj Gupta
2017-10-05  0:56             ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2017-10-05  1:50               ` Manoj Gupta
2017-10-05  2:06                 ` Jakub Kicinski
2017-10-05  2:13                   ` Manoj Gupta
2017-10-09 17:29                     ` Matthias Kaehlcke

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