Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] drm/i915/utils: do not depend on config being defined

[Steven Price]

On 29/09/2021 19:33, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> Like the IS_ENABLED() counterpart, we can make IS_CONFIG_NONZERO() to
> return the right thing when the config is not defined rather than a
> build error, with the limitation that it can't be used on preprocessor
> context.
> 
> The trick here is that macro names can't start with a number or dash, so
> we stringify the argument and check that the first char is a number != 0
> (or starting with a dash to cover negative numbers). Except for -O0
> builds the strings are all eliminated.
> 
> Taking CONFIG_DRM_I915_REQUEST_TIMEOUT in
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c as example, we have the
> following output of the preprocessor:
> 
> old:
>  if (((20000) != 0) &&
> new:
>  if (( ("20000"[0] > '0' && "20000"[0] < '9') || "20000"[0] == '-' ) &&
> 
> New one looks worse, but is also eliminated from the object:
> 
> $ size drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.o.*
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   52021    1070     232   53323    d04b drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.o.new
>   52021    1070     232   53323    d04b drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.o.old
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_utils.h | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_utils.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_utils.h
> index 02bbfa4d68d3..436ce612c46a 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_utils.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_utils.h
> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
>  #include <linux/list.h>
>  #include <linux/overflow.h>
>  #include <linux/sched.h>
> +#include <linux/stringify.h>
>  #include <linux/types.h>
>  #include <linux/workqueue.h>
>  
> @@ -469,6 +470,9 @@ static inline bool timer_expired(const struct timer_list *t)
>   *
>   * Returns 0 if @config is 0, 1 if set to any value.
>   */
> -#define IS_CONFIG_NONZERO(config) ((config) != 0)
> +#define IS_CONFIG_NONZERO(config) (						\
> +	(__stringify_1(config)[0] > '0' && __stringify_1(config)[0] < '9') ||	\

Shouldn't this be "<= '9'". Otherwise numbers starting with a 9 are not
"non zero".

Steve

> +	__stringify_1(config)[0] == '-'						\
> +)
>  
>  #endif /* !__I915_UTILS_H */
>