Re: [PATCH v3 02/22] arm64: Generate sign macro for sysreg Enums

[Colton Lewis]

Hi Ben. Thanks for the review.

Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi Colton,

> On 6/26/25 21:04, Colton Lewis wrote:
> > There's no reason Enums shouldn't be equivalent to UnsignedEnums and
> > explicitly specify they are unsigned. This will avoid the annoyance I
> > had with HPMN0.
> An Enum can be annotated with the field's sign by updating it to
> UnsignedEnum or SignedEnum. This is explained in [1].

> With this change ID_AA64PFR1_EL1.MTE_frac would be marked as unsigned
> when it should really be considered signed.

> Enum	43:40	MTE_frac
> 	0b0000	ASYNC
> 	0b1111	NI
> EndEnum

Thanks for the explanation. I made this a separate commit because I
considered people might object and HPMN0 is already an UnsignedEnum in
my previous commit.

Do you think it would be a good idea to make plain Enums signed by
default or should I just remove this commit from the series?


> > Signed-off-by: Colton Lewis <coltonlewis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >    arch/arm64/tools/gen-sysreg.awk | 1 +
> >    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/tools/gen-sysreg.awk  
> > b/arch/arm64/tools/gen-sysreg.awk
> > index f2a1732cb1f6..fa21a632d9b7 100755
> > --- a/arch/arm64/tools/gen-sysreg.awk
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/tools/gen-sysreg.awk
> > @@ -308,6 +308,7 @@ $1 == "Enum" && (block_current() == "Sysreg" ||  
> > block_current() == "SysregFields
> >    	parse_bitdef(reg, field, $2)

> >    	define_field(reg, field, msb, lsb)
> > +	define_field_sign(reg, field, "false")

> >    	next
> >    }

> Thanks,

> Ben

> [1]
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221207-arm64-sysreg-helpers-v4-1-25b6b3fb9d18@xxxxxxxxxx/