Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965585Ab2B1MPE (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:15:04 -0500 Received: from smtp.eu.citrix.com ([62.200.22.115]:8627 "EHLO SMTP.EU.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965250Ab2B1MPC (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:15:02 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,495,1325462400"; d="scan'208";a="10980931" Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:21:37 +0000 From: Stefano Stabellini X-X-Sender: sstabellini@kaball-desktop To: Dave Martin CC: Ian Campbell , Stefano Stabellini , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , "linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org" , "arnd@arndb.de" , "catalin.marinas@arm.com" , David Vrabel , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH-WIP 01/13] xen/arm: use r12 to pass the hypercall number to the hypervisor In-Reply-To: <20120228094616.GA2063@linaro.org> Message-ID: References: <1330019314-20865-1-git-send-email-stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> <20120227175327.GA2023@linaro.org> <1330372125.10008.47.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> <20120228094616.GA2063@linaro.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1037 Lines: 21 On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Dave Martin wrote: > > Given that Stefano is proposing to make the ISS a (per-hypervisor) > > constant we could consider just defining the Thumb and non-Thumb > > constants instead of doing all the construction with the __HVC_IMM stuff > > -- that would remove a big bit of the macroization. > > It's not quite as simple as that -- emitting instructions using data > directives is not endianness safe, and even in the cases where .long gives > the right result for ARM, it gives the wrong result for 32-bit Thumb > instructions if the opcode is given in human-readable order. > > I was trying to solve the same problem for the kvm guys with some global > macros -- I'm aiming to get a patch posted soon, so I'll make sure > you're on CC. That would be great, thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/