Re: [PATCH] asm-generic/bitops/fls64.h

From: Nickolay Vinogradov
Date: Tue May 13 2008 - 08:30:33 EST


Alexander van Heukelum ÐÐÑÐÑ:

Hi Nickolay,

The change is ok, I guess, but the cast should be a no-op (fls
takes an int, which is always 32 bit in linux). What is the problem
you are seeing? Does fls64() return a wrong value in some cases? If
so, what cpu? Which values?

Why would this be a bug on big endian systems only? There is no
pointer magic involved, so the compiler should take care of the
casts in a correct way.

Maybe you see a compiler warning? Which compiler version?

(also note that current (development) kernels now have separate
versions for 32-bit and 64-bit environments.)

Because fls() is a macro for asm-arm:

#define fls(x) \
( __builtin_constant_p(x) ? constant_fls(x) : \
({ int __r; asm("clz\t%0, %1" : "=r"(__r) : "r"(x) : "cc"); 32-__r; }) )

We can fix it right here:

diff --git a/include/asm-arm/bitops.h b/include/asm-arm/bitops.h
index 5c60bfc..ce3fb6f 100644
--- a/include/asm-arm/bitops.h
+++ b/include/asm-arm/bitops.h
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ static inline int constant_fls(int x)

#define fls(x) \
( __builtin_constant_p(x) ? constant_fls(x) : \
- ({ int __r; asm("clz\t%0, %1" : "=r"(__r) : "r"(x) : "cc"); 32-__r; }) )
+ ({ int __r; asm("clz\t%0, %1" : "=r"(__r) : "r"((__u32)x) : "cc"); 32-__r; }) )
#define ffs(x) ({ unsigned long __t = (x); fls(__t & -__t); })
#define __ffs(x) (ffs(x) - 1)
#define ffz(x) __ffs( ~(x) )


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Nickolay Vinogradov
Protei Research and Development Center
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