On 07/30/2018 09:19 PM, Juan Quintela wrote:
Wei Wang <wei.w.w...@intel.com> wrote:
On 07/30/2018 03:13 PM, Wei Wang wrote:
This macro was ported from Linux and we've reached an aggreement there
that the corner case "nbits = 0" is not applicable to this macro, because
when "nbits = 0", which means no bits to mask, this macro is expected to
return 0, instead of 0xffffffff. This patch simply adds a comment above
the macro as a note to users about the corner case.
Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.w...@intel.com>
CC: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilb...@redhat.com>
CC: Juan Quintela <quint...@redhat.com>
CC: Peter Xu <pet...@redhat.com>
---
include/qemu/bitmap.h | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/include/qemu/bitmap.h b/include/qemu/bitmap.h
index 509eedd..f53c640 100644
--- a/include/qemu/bitmap.h
+++ b/include/qemu/bitmap.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@
*/
#define BITMAP_FIRST_WORD_MASK(start) (~0UL << ((start) &
(BITS_PER_LONG - 1)))
+/* "nbits = 0" is not applicable to this macro. Callers should avoid that. */
#define BITMAP_LAST_WORD_MASK(nbits) (~0UL >> (-(nbits) & (BITS_PER_LONG -
1)))
#define DECLARE_BITMAP(name,bits) \
A better fix would be to directly change the macro to: nbits ? (~0UL
(-(nbits) & (BITS_PER_LONG - 1))) : 0,
so that we don't need to fix other callers like bitmap_full,
bitmap_intersects.
So just post this out for a discussion whether it's preferred to just
adding note comments as we did for linux or fixing the macro directly.
Best,
Wei
On one hand:
a - we have copied it form linux, we don't want to diverge
On the other hand:
b - it is much easier to use if we change the macro
So, it is a tought one.
I slightly preffer b), but will not object to a either. As you are the
one doing the patch, your choice.
Thanks Juan. I plan to choose b - fixing the macro directly.
Best,
Wei
