[PATCH] x86, bitops, variable_test_bit should return 1 not -1 on a match

[Prarit Bhargava]

This issue was noticed while debugging a CPU hotplug issue.  On x86
with (NR_CPUS > 1) the cpu_online() define is cpumask_test_cpu().
cpumask_test_cpu() should return 1 if the cpu is set in cpumask and
0 otherwise.

However, cpumask_test_cpu() returns -1 if the cpu in the cpumask is
set and 0 otherwise.  This happens because cpumask_test_cpu() calls
test_bit() which is a define that will call variable_test_bit().

variable_test_bit() calls the assembler instruction sbb (Subtract
with Borrow, " Subtracts the source from the destination, and subtracts 1
extra if the Carry Flag is set. Results are returned in "dest".)

A bit match results in -1 being returned from variable_test_bit() if a
match occurs, not 1 as the function is supposed to.  This can be easily
resolved by adding a "!!" to force 0 or 1 as a return.

It looks like the code never does, for example, (test_bit() == 1) so this
change should not have any impact.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h
index cfe3b95..a87a5fb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ static inline int variable_test_bit(long nr, volatile const unsigned long *addr)
 		     : "=r" (oldbit)
 		     : "m" (*(unsigned long *)addr), "Ir" (nr));
 
-	return oldbit;
+	return !!oldbit;
 }
 
 #if 0 /* Fool kernel-doc since it doesn't do macros yet */
-- 
1.7.9.3

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