lib: extend the scope of small_const_nbits() macro
authorYury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Fri, 7 May 2021 01:02:56 +0000 (18:02 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 7 May 2021 02:24:11 +0000 (19:24 -0700)
find_bit would also benefit from small_const_nbits() optimizations.  The
detailed comment is provided by Rasmus Villemoes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210401003153.97325-6-yury.norov@gmail.com
Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Klimov <aklimov@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Jianpeng Ma <jianpeng.ma@intel.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.osdn.me>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/asm-generic/bitsperlong.h
include/linux/bitmap.h

index 3905c1c..1023e2a 100644 (file)
 #define BITS_PER_LONG_LONG 64
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * small_const_nbits(n) is true precisely when it is known at compile-time
+ * that BITMAP_SIZE(n) is 1, i.e. 1 <= n <= BITS_PER_LONG. This allows
+ * various bit/bitmap APIs to provide a fast inline implementation. Bitmaps
+ * of size 0 are very rare, and a compile-time-known-size 0 is most likely
+ * a sign of error. They will be handled correctly by the bit/bitmap APIs,
+ * but using the out-of-line functions, so that the inline implementations
+ * can unconditionally dereference the pointer(s).
+ */
+#define small_const_nbits(nbits) \
+       (__builtin_constant_p(nbits) && (nbits) <= BITS_PER_LONG && (nbits) > 0)
+
 #endif /* __ASM_GENERIC_BITS_PER_LONG */
index 6cbcd9d..f57f447 100644 (file)
@@ -223,14 +223,6 @@ extern int bitmap_print_to_pagebuf(bool list, char *buf,
 #define BITMAP_FIRST_WORD_MASK(start) (~0UL << ((start) & (BITS_PER_LONG - 1)))
 #define BITMAP_LAST_WORD_MASK(nbits) (~0UL >> (-(nbits) & (BITS_PER_LONG - 1)))
 
-/*
- * The static inlines below do not handle constant nbits==0 correctly,
- * so make such users (should any ever turn up) call the out-of-line
- * versions.
- */
-#define small_const_nbits(nbits) \
-       (__builtin_constant_p(nbits) && (nbits) <= BITS_PER_LONG && (nbits) > 0)
-
 static inline void bitmap_zero(unsigned long *dst, unsigned int nbits)
 {
        unsigned int len = BITS_TO_LONGS(nbits) * sizeof(unsigned long);