Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] lib: Add strongly typed 64bit int_sqrt

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 04:05:44PM +0100, Crt Mori wrote:
> There is no option to perform 64bit integer sqrt on 32bit platform.
> Added stronger typed int_sqrt64 enables the 64bit calculations to
> be performed on 32bit platforms. Although int_sqrt() is a rough
> approximation, the same algorithm is used in int_sqrt64() as good
> enough on 32bit platform.

You clearly haven't read a recent version of the file you're patching.
Please take a moment to do so now.

> +/**
> + * int_sqrt64 - strongly typed int_sqrt function
> + * @x: 64bit integer of which to calculate the sqrt
> + */
> +u64 int_sqrt64(u64 x)

Please explain how the result of sqrt(u64) can be larger than u32.

Also, I expect that this fact could be exploited to optimize this for
32bit archs if one were so inclined.

> +{
> +	u64 b, m, y = 0;
> +
> +	if (x <= 1)
> +		return x;
> +
> +	m = 1ULL << (64 - 2);
> +	while (m != 0) {
> +		b = y + m;
> +		y >>= 1;
> +
> +		if (x >= b) {
> +			x -= b;
> +			y += m;
> +		}
> +		m >>= 2;
> +	}
> +	return y;
> +}

so yeah, no, please try again after reading the current file.