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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Guo Ren' <guoren@kernel.org>,
	Celeste Liu <coelacanthushex@gmail.com>,
	Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: "Palmer Dabbelt" <palmer@rivosinc.com>,
	"Paul Walmsley" <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	"Albert Ou" <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
	"Björn Töpel" <bjorn@rivosinc.com>,
	"Conor Dooley" <conor.dooley@microchip.com>,
	"linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Felix Yan" <felixonmars@archlinux.org>,
	"Ruizhe Pan" <c141028@gmail.com>,
	"Shiqi Zhang" <shiqi@isrc.iscas.ac.cn>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v3] riscv: entry: set a0 = -ENOSYS only when syscall != -1
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 13:13:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0aab577b941e4c3483ad4a7af3b42c1f@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJF2gTRf0UOYhqwUm6=1YMvZt8q_72WRUHqN=L+nOWaipL+H1Q@mail.gmail.com>

...
> > +               /*
> > +                * Convert negative numbers to very high and thus out of range
> > +                * numbers for comparisons.
> > +                */
> >                 ulong syscall = regs->a7;
> >
> >                 regs->epc += 4;
> > @@ -308,7 +312,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible __trap_section void do_trap_ecall_u(struct pt_regs *regs)
> >
> >                 if (syscall < NR_syscalls)

If you leave 'syscall' signed and write:
	if (syscall >= 0 && syscall < NR_syscalls)
the compiler will use a single unsigned compare.
There is no need to 'optimise' it yourself.

	David

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-19 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-18 20:57 Celeste Liu
2023-07-18 21:20 ` Björn Töpel
2023-07-18 23:40 ` Guo Ren
2023-07-19 13:13   ` David Laight [this message]
2023-07-19  7:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-07-19 16:28   ` Björn Töpel
2023-07-20  6:46     ` Celeste Liu
2023-07-20  9:08       ` Björn Töpel
2023-07-20 19:24         ` Celeste Liu

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