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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 02/14] AMD/IOMMU: use bit field for extended feature register


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  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 02/14] AMD/IOMMU: use bit field for extended feature register

On 19.07.2019 18:23, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 16/07/2019 17:35, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> This also takes care of several of the shift values wrongly having been
>> specified as hex rather than dec.
>>
>> Take the opportunity and
>> - replace a readl() pair by a single readq(),
>> - add further fields.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> CI is happy this time around.
> 
> https://gitlab.com/xen-project/people/andyhhp/xen/pipelines/71942193

Hurray.

> Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

> but as a warning, I'm still certain that FEAT() is a fragile, and will
> be liable to break on future compilers, seeing as that seem to be the
> trend for diagnostics.

There's a certain risk, yes.

> I'm also unsure whether it works correctly on signed fields.

I'm sure it wouldn't, but I don't see any signed fields appearing
there.

Jan
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