Re: [PATCH net] mlx5: avoid 64-bit division in dr_icm_pool_mr_create()

From: Alex Vesker
Date: Wed Oct 02 2019 - 10:58:50 EST


On 10/2/2019 3:12 PM, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> Recently added code introduces 64-bit division in dr_icm_pool_mr_create()
> so that build on 32-bit architectures fails with
>
> ERROR: "__umoddi3" [drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/mlx5_core.ko] undefined!
>
> As the divisor is always a power of 2, we can use bitwise operation
> instead.
>
> Fixes: 29cf8febd185 ("net/mlx5: DR, ICM pool memory allocator")
> Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/dr_icm_pool.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/dr_icm_pool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/dr_icm_pool.c
> index 913f1e5aaaf2..d7c7467e2d53 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/dr_icm_pool.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/dr_icm_pool.c
> @@ -137,7 +137,8 @@ dr_icm_pool_mr_create(struct mlx5dr_icm_pool *pool,
>
> icm_mr->icm_start_addr = icm_mr->dm.addr;
>
> - align_diff = icm_mr->icm_start_addr % align_base;
> + /* align_base is always a power of 2 */
> + align_diff = icm_mr->icm_start_addr & (align_base - 1);
> if (align_diff)
> icm_mr->used_length = align_base - align_diff;
>

Align diff is power of 2, looks good to me.
Thanks for fixing it Michal.