Hello!

> > It's simply more convenient to use a pointer for exchange with
> > userspace, see vgic_v3_cpu_regs_access() and callers. I wouldn't like
> > to refactor the code again. What's your opinion on this?
> 
> I still don't think this is a good idea. You can still store the value
> as an integer in vgic_v3_cpu_regs_access(), and check the write property
> to do the writeback on read. Which is the same thing I asked for in this
> patch.

 Started doing this and found one more (big) reason against. All sysreg 
handlers have 'const struct sys_reg_params' declaration, and
callers, and their callers... This 'const' is all around the code, and it would 
take a separate huge patch to un-const'ify all this.
Does it worth that?

Kind regards,
Pavel Fedin
Expert Engineer
Samsung Electronics Research center Russia


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