Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/5] clean-up cpuflags

[Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>]

On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 03:01:26PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-02-03 19:08, Jerin Jacob:
> > On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 11:59:48PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > compilation errors on arm64 too.
> 
> Yes I forgot REG_PLATFORM.
> 
> > arm64 toolchains are publicly available @
> > http://releases.linaro.org/14.11/components/toolchain/binaries/aarch64-linux-gnu/
> 
> Yes I know, thank you.
> I will test and make a v2.
> 
> Do you have any comment on the changes?

looks good, nice cleanup.

IMO, Something like below can be done to remove the #ifdef clutter in
rte_cpu_get_features for ARM introduced in this rework

[master] pass2  [dpdk-master] $ git diff
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/arch/arm/rte_cpuflags.c
b/lib/librte_eal/common/arch/arm/rte_cpuflags.c
index fba0a61..861ac57 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/arch/arm/rte_cpuflags.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/arch/arm/rte_cpuflags.c
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ struct feature_entry {
        [RTE_CPUFLAG_##name] = {reg, bit, #name},
 
 #ifdef RTE_ARCH_64
+#define PLATFORM_STR "aarch64"
+typedef Elf64_auxv_t _Elfx_auxv_t
+
 const struct feature_entry rte_cpu_feature_table[] = {
        FEAT_DEF(FP,            REG_HWCAP,    0)
        FEAT_DEF(NEON,          REG_HWCAP,    1)
@@ -83,6 +86,9 @@ const struct feature_entry rte_cpu_feature_table[] = {
        FEAT_DEF(AARCH64,       REG_PLATFORM, 1)
 };
 #else
+#define PLATFORM_STR "v7l"
+typedef Elf32_auxv_t _Elfx_auxv_t
+
 const struct feature_entry rte_cpu_feature_table[] = {
        FEAT_DEF(SWP,       REG_HWCAP,    0)
        FEAT_DEF(HALF,      REG_HWCAP,    1)
@@ -115,6 +121,7 @@ const struct feature_entry rte_cpu_feature_table[] =
{
 };
 #endif
 
+
 /*
  * Read AUXV software register and get cpu features for ARM
  */
@@ -122,11 +129,8 @@ static void
 rte_cpu_get_features(hwcap_registers_t out)
 {
        int auxv_fd;
-#ifdef RTE_ARCH_64
-       Elf64_auxv_t auxv;
-#else
-       Elf32_auxv_t auxv;
-#endif
+
+       _Elfx_auxv_t auxv;
 
        auxv_fd = open("/proc/self/auxv", O_RDONLY);
        assert(auxv_fd);
@@ -136,11 +140,7 @@ rte_cpu_get_features(hwcap_registers_t out)
                } else if (auxv.a_type == AT_HWCAP2) {
                        out[REG_HWCAP2] = auxv.a_un.a_val;
                } else if (auxv.a_type == AT_PLATFORM) {
-#ifdef RTE_ARCH_64
-                       if (!strcmp((const char *)auxv.a_un.a_val, "aarch64"))
-#else
-                       if (!strcmp((const char *)auxv.a_un.a_val, "v7l"))
-#endif
+                       if (!strcmp((const char *)auxv.a_un.a_val, PLATFORM_STR))
                                out[REG_PLATFORM] = 0x0001;
                }
        }

Jerin