[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 15/35] subarch support for controlling interrupt delivery

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

es, which is why I measured that one as well.
> 
> Now, the original concern was that we have the five operations implemented
> as multi-line macros and doing a hybrid solution doesn't really address
> that.

If it's straight-forward to convert to an inline do it. If not keep
it as a macro. After all code style is just a tool, not something
self serving.

> 
> Also, it's not quite clear to me what's the best way to turn three of
> the five into functions, whether inline or not.
> 
> For measuring the sizes, I did the following:
> add void ___restore_flags(unsigned long *x) with the implementation
> and then:
> #define __restore_flags(x) ___restore_flags(&(x))

Yes that is the standard way to do it 

> Alternatively, would it make sense to change __restore_flags to take
> a pointer to flags instead?  That would be quite an invasive change...

No.

-Andi


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