On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:09:51AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > bits &= ~esp->scsi_id_mask; > > > > - if (!bits || (bits & (bits - 1))) > > > > + if (!is_power_of_2(bits)) > > > > goto do_reset; > > > > > > Non-equivalent transform. Definitely a bug. > > > > ok, that one i'm curious about. how is that not an equivalent > > transform? am i missing something painfully obvious? > > Apologies, I got my boolean algebra wrong. It is equivalent: > > bool is_power_of_2(unsigned long n) > return (n != 0 && ((n & (n - 1)) == 0)); > > substitute it in: > > if (!is_power_of_2(bits)) > > if (!(bits != 0 && ((bits & (bits - 1)) == 0))) > > push the ! inside brackets: > > if (bits == 0 || ((bits & (bits - 1)) != 0)) > > > > > - if (!bits || (bits & (bits - 1))) > > Clearly the same thing. Still ... I don't like it because we're not > really looking for 'is this a power of two', we want to know 'is there > exactly one bit set'. Which, after a bit of thinking, is the same > thing, but it's a bad name for this usage. Perhaps we could add > > #define exactly_one_bit_set is_power_of_2 > > to the header file.
as i recall, that was a point of early discussion and i don't see anything terribly wrong with that. i'll submit a patch for that shortly and see what folks think. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
