Re: [RFC 3/3] virtio_ring: use new vring flags

From: Tiwei Bie
Date: Sat Dec 08 2018 - 08:49:30 EST


On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 01:10:48PM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 04:48:42PM +0800, Tiwei Bie wrote:
> > Switch to using the _SPLIT_ and _PACKED_ variants of vring flags
> > in split ring and packed ring respectively.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > @@ -502,7 +505,8 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add_split(struct virtqueue *_vq,
> > }
> > }
> > /* Last one doesn't continue. */
> > - desc[prev].flags &= cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev, ~VRING_DESC_F_NEXT);
> > + desc[prev].flags &= cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev,
> > + (u16)~BIT(VRING_SPLIT_DESC_F_NEXT));
> >
> > if (indirect) {
> > /* Now that the indirect table is filled in, map it. */
>
> I kind of dislike it that this forces use of a cast here.
> Kind of makes it more fragile. Let's use a temporary instead?

I tried something like this:

u16 mask = ~BIT(VRING_SPLIT_DESC_F_NEXT);

And it will still cause the warning:

warning: large integer implicitly truncated to unsigned type [-Woverflow]
u16 mask = ~BIT(VRING_SPLIT_DESC_F_NEXT);

If the cast isn't wanted, maybe use ~(1 << VRING_SPLIT_DESC_F_NEXT)
directly?

>
> > --
> > 2.17.1