Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 12/35] target-arm: Convert performance monitor reginfo to accesfn

[Alistair Francis]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 5 February 2014 06:59, Peter Crosthwaite
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> cc Alistair, this may conflict with his timer work.

It seems fine to me. None of Peter's code changes conflict with mine,
except for adding the ".accessfn = pmreg_access," to the PMCCNTR
register. My patch never implemented the return EXCP_UDEF; so no
action is needed there

>>
>> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> @@ -624,37 +606,41 @@ static const ARMCPRegInfo v7_cp_reginfo[] = {
>>>      { .name = "PMCNTENSET", .cp = 15, .crn = 9, .crm = 12, .opc1 = 0, 
>>> .opc2 = 1,
>>>        .access = PL0_RW, .resetvalue = 0,
>>>        .fieldoffset = offsetof(CPUARMState, cp15.c9_pmcnten),
>>> -      .readfn = pmreg_read, .writefn = pmcntenset_write,
>>> -      .raw_readfn = raw_read, .raw_writefn = raw_write },
>>> +      .writefn = pmcntenset_write,
>>> +      .accessfn = pmreg_access,
>>> +      .raw_writefn = raw_write },
>>
>> A nit but,
>>
>> You're field ordering scheme is inconsistent, here you go, write ->
>> access -> raw_write ....
>>
>>>      { .name = "PMCNTENCLR", .cp = 15, .crn = 9, .crm = 12, .opc1 = 0, 
>>> .opc2 = 2,
>>>        .access = PL0_RW, .fieldoffset = offsetof(CPUARMState, 
>>> cp15.c9_pmcnten),
>>> -      .readfn = pmreg_read, .writefn = pmcntenclr_write,
>>> +      .accessfn = pmreg_access,
>>> +      .writefn = pmcntenclr_write,
>>>        .type = ARM_CP_NO_MIGRATE },
>>>      { .name = "PMOVSR", .cp = 15, .crn = 9, .crm = 12, .opc1 = 0, .opc2 = 
>>> 3,
>>>        .access = PL0_RW, .fieldoffset = offsetof(CPUARMState, 
>>> cp15.c9_pmovsr),
>>> -      .readfn = pmreg_read, .writefn = pmovsr_write,
>>> -      .raw_readfn = raw_read, .raw_writefn = raw_write },
>>> -    /* Unimplemented so WI. Strictly speaking write accesses in PL0 should
>>> -     * respect PMUSERENR.
>>> -     */
>>> +      .accessfn = pmreg_access,
>>> +      .writefn = pmovsr_write,
>>> +      .raw_writefn = raw_write },
>>
>> ... and this is access -> write -> raw_write. Is there a prescribed
>> order to keep new (or gradually refactored) code consistent?
>
> No, I've just been going for "whatever looks like it fits reasonably
> neatly onto not too many lines and is a fairly minimal change to existing
> structs", mostly. The thing I have been trying to be consistent with is
> the order for crn/crm/opc1/opc2 fields, which for new registers I've been
> making be op0/op1/crn/crm/op2, because that's the order the ARM ARM
> seems to have settled on. Unfortunately a lot of our existing definitions
> are crn/crm/op1/op2, because at the time there was variance in the
> ARM docs and that order seemed sensible to me.
>
> For the other fields, I think "name first; type/state/encoding second;
> access related fields; read and write accessors; reset stuff" is probably
> not a bad order. But the nice thing about having named fields is it
> doesn't actually matter what order things go in.
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>