Re: [PATCH] zsmalloc: use U suffix for negative literals being shifted

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Mon Jan 08 2018 - 23:35:32 EST


On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 7:04 AM, Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sorry for the delay. I have missed this until now. ;-(

No worries, figured patches would need a post holiday bump for review.

>
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Nick Desaulniers
> <nick.desaulniers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> - link->next = -1 << OBJ_TAG_BITS;
>> + link->next = -1U << OBJ_TAG_BITS;
>
> -1UL?

Oops, good catch.

> Please, resend it with including Andrew Morton
> <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> who merges zsmalloc patch into his tree.

Will do.

On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Oh, boy, shouldn't be rather GENMASK() / GENMASK_ULL() in a way how

Thanks for the suggestion. `GENMASK(BITS_PER_LONG - 1, OBJ_TAG_BITS);`
is equivalent. Whether that is more readable, I'll wait for Minchan
to decide. If that's preferred, I'll make sure to credit you with the
Suggested-By tag in the commit message.