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Re: [PATCH v2 07/14] xen/riscv: introduce exception context



Hi Julien,

On Fri, 2023-01-27 at 14:54 +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi Oleksii,
> 
> On 27/01/2023 13:59, Oleksii Kurochko wrote:
> > +static inline void wfi(void)
> > +{
> > +    __asm__ __volatile__ ("wfi");
> 
> I have starred at this line for a while and I am not quite too sure
> to 
> understand why we don't need to clobber the memory like we do on Arm.
> 
I don't have an answer. The code was based on Linux so...
> FWIW, Linux is doing the same, so I guess this is correct. For Arm we
> also follow the Linux implementation.
> 
> But I am wondering whether we are just too strict on Arm, RISCv
> compiler 
> offer a different guarantee, or you expect the user to be responsible
> to 
> prevent the compiler to do harmful optimization.
> 
> > +/*
> > + * panic() isn't available at the moment so an infinite loop will
> > be
> > + * used temporarily.
> > + * TODO: change it to panic()
> > + */
> > +static inline void die(void)
> > +{
> > +    for( ;; ) wfi();
> 
> Please move wfi() to a newline.
Thanks.

I thought that it is fine to put into one line in this case but I'll
move it to a newline. It's fine.
> 
> > +}
> 
~Oleksii




 


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