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From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: "Oleksii K." <oleksii.kurochko@gmail.com>
Cc: "Stefano Stabellini" <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	"Julien Grall" <julien@xen.org>,
	"Bertrand Marquis" <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>,
	"Michal Orzel" <michal.orzel@amd.com>,
	"Volodymyr Babchuk" <Volodymyr_Babchuk@epam.com>,
	"Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	"George Dunlap" <george.dunlap@citrix.com>,
	"Shawn Anastasio" <sanastasio@raptorengineering.com>,
	"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 03/15] xen/bitops: implement fls{l}() in common logic
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 11:52:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d35ee29a-f6cf-4e3b-86f0-d77a84c63a3a@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9cee6531c9aa6650be803d004b06cc88a25df7f5.camel@gmail.com>

On 17.05.2024 11:06, Oleksii K. wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-05-15 at 11:09 +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> But this then needs carrying through to ...
>>
>>> --- a/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/arm64/bitops.h
>>> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/arm64/bitops.h
>>> @@ -22,17 +22,15 @@ static /*__*/always_inline unsigned long
>>> __ffs(unsigned long word)
>>>    */
>>>   #define ffz(x)  __ffs(~(x))
>>>   
>>> -static inline int flsl(unsigned long x)
>>> +static inline int arch_flsl(unsigned long x)
>>
>> ... e.g. here. You don't want to introduce signed/unsigned
>> mismatches.
> Is it critical for x86 to return int for flsl() and fls() or I can
> update the return type for x86 too?

The return types ought to be changed imo, for everything to end up
consistent.

>    static always_inline int arch_flsl(unsigned long x)
>    {
>        long r;
>    
>        asm ( "bsr %1,%0\n\t"
>              "jnz 1f\n\t"
>              "mov $-1,%0\n"
>              "1:" : "=r" (r) : "rm" (x));
>        return (int)r+1;
>    }
>    #define arch_flsl arch_flsl
>    
>    static always_inline int arch_fls(unsigned int x)
>    {
>        int r;
>    
>        asm ( "bsr %1,%0\n\t"
>              "jnz 1f\n\t"
>              "mov $-1,%0\n"
>              "1:" : "=r" (r) : "rm" (x));
>        return r + 1;
>    }
>    #define arch_fls arch_fls
> 
> Any specific reason why 'long' and 'int' types for r are used?

I don't think so. I expect it merely fits with no-one having cared about
signedness back at the time.

Jan


  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-17  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-06 10:15 [PATCH v9 00/15] Enable build of full Xen for RISC-V Oleksii Kurochko
2024-05-06 10:15 ` [PATCH v9 01/15] xen/riscv: disable unnecessary configs Oleksii Kurochko
2024-05-06 10:15 ` [PATCH v9 02/15] xen: introduce generic non-atomic test_*bit() Oleksii Kurochko
2024-05-15  8:52   ` Jan Beulich
2024-05-15 15:29     ` Oleksii K.
2024-05-15 15:41       ` Jan Beulich
2024-05-15 17:03         ` Oleksii K.
2024-05-16  7:04           ` Jan Beulich
2024-05-16 10:34             ` Oleksii K.
2024-05-16 10:49               ` Jan Beulich
2024-05-17  8:42                 ` Oleksii K.
2024-05-06 10:15 ` [PATCH v9 03/15] xen/bitops: implement fls{l}() in common logic Oleksii Kurochko
2024-05-15  9:09   ` Jan Beulich
2024-05-15 13:55     ` Oleksii K.
2024-05-15 14:07       ` Jan Beulich
2024-05-15 15:31         ` Oleksii K.
2024-05-17  9:06     ` Oleksii K.
2024-05-17  9:52       ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2024-05-06 10:15 ` [PATCH v9 04/15] xen/bitops: put __ffs() into linux compatible header Oleksii Kurochko
2024-05-15 14:34   ` Michal Orzel
2024-05-15 15:08   ` Rahul Singh
2024-05-06 10:15 ` [PATCH v9 05/15] xen/riscv: introduce bitops.h Oleksii Kurochko
2024-05-15  9:29   ` Jan Beulich
2024-05-06 10:15 ` [PATCH v9 06/15] xen/riscv: introduce cmpxchg.h Oleksii Kurochko
2024-05-15  9:38   ` Jan Beulich
2024-05-06 10:15 ` [PATCH v9 07/15] xen/riscv: introduce atomic.h Oleksii Kurochko
2024-05-15  9:49   ` Jan Beulich
2024-05-15 13:59     ` Oleksii K.
2024-05-06 10:15 ` [PATCH v9 08/15] xen/riscv: introduce monitor.h Oleksii Kurochko
2024-05-06 10:15 ` [PATCH v9 09/15] xen/riscv: add definition of __read_mostly Oleksii Kurochko
2024-05-06 10:15 ` [PATCH v9 10/15] xen/riscv: add required things to current.h Oleksii Kurochko
2024-05-06 10:15 ` [PATCH v9 11/15] xen/riscv: add minimal stuff to mm.h to build full Xen Oleksii Kurochko
2024-05-06 10:15 ` [PATCH v9 12/15] xen/riscv: introduce vm_event_*() functions Oleksii Kurochko
2024-05-06 10:15 ` [PATCH v9 13/15] xen/riscv: add minimal amount of stubs to build full Xen Oleksii Kurochko
2024-05-06 10:15 ` [PATCH v9 14/15] xen/riscv: enable full Xen build Oleksii Kurochko
2024-05-06 10:15 ` [PATCH v9 15/15] xen/README: add compiler and binutils versions for RISC-V64 Oleksii Kurochko

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