Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v2 2/7] staging: most: Using macro DIV_ROUND_UP

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Feb 22 2017 - 05:08:17 EST


On Wed, 2017-02-22 at 10:27 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > @@ -117,7 +118,7 @@ static int alloc_dbr(u16 size)
> > return DBR_SIZE; /* out of memory */
> >
> > for (i = 0; i < DBR_MAP_SIZE; i++) {
> > - u32 const blocks = (size + DBR_BLOCK_SIZE - 1) / DBR_BLOCK_SIZE;
> > + u32 const blocks = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, DBR_BLOCK_SIZE);
> > u32 mask = ~((~(u32)0) << blocks);
>
> Totally unrelated to DIV_ROUND_UP, would this code be a candidate for
> GENMASK?

Maybe "(1 << blocks) - 1" would be more intelligible.