Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756786AbcCROyf (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:54:35 -0400 Received: from e23smtp05.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.147]:34903 "EHLO e23smtp05.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753269AbcCROyd (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:54:33 -0400 X-IBM-Helo: d23dlp02.au.ibm.com X-IBM-MailFrom: shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com X-IBM-RcptTo: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <56EC1664.8020905@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 20:23:24 +0530 From: Shreyas B Prabhu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Mackerras CC: mpe@ellerman.id.au, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] powerpc/powernv: Encapsulate idle preparation steps in a macro References: <1456748580-10519-1-git-send-email-shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1456748580-10519-3-git-send-email-shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20160317111534.GD28728@fergus.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20160317111534.GD28728@fergus.ozlabs.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 16031814-0017-0000-0000-00000376059F Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1251 Lines: 28 Hi Paul, On 03/17/2016 04:45 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote: > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 05:52:59PM +0530, Shreyas B. Prabhu wrote: >> Before entering any idle state which can result in a state loss >> we currently save the context in the stack before entering idle. >> Encapsulate these steps in a macro IDLE_STATE_PREP. Move this >> and other macros to commonly accessible location. > > There are two problems with this. First, your new macro does much > more than create a stack frame and save some registers. It also > messes with interrupts and potentially executes a blr instruction. > That is not what people would expect from the name of the macro or the > comments around it. It also means that it would be hard to reuse the > macro in another place. > > Secondly, I don't think this change helps readability. Since the > macro is only used in one place, it doesn't reduce the total number of > lines of code, in fact it increases it slightly. This patch was in preparation for support for new POWER ISA v3 idle states. The idea was to have the common idle preparation steps in a macro which be reused while adding support for the new idle states. With this context do you think this macro with better comments make sense? Thanks, Shreyas