Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/6] bitmap: add a couple more helpers to work with arrays of u32s

From: Yury Norov
Date: Thu Oct 20 2022 - 11:31:51 EST


On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 04:18:08PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 05:21:01PM -0700, Yury Norov wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 04:00:23PM +0200, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > +static inline size_t bitmap_arr32_size(size_t nbits)
> > > +{
> > > + return array_size(BITS_TO_U32(nbits), sizeof(u32));
> >
> > To me this looks simpler: round_up(nbits, 32) / BITS_PER_BYTE.
> > Can you check which generates better code?
>
> It's not only about better code, but also about overflow protection, which your
> proposal is missing.

Can you explain how this may overflow?

#define __round_mask(x, y) ((__typeof__(x))((y)-1))
#define round_up(x, y) ((((x)-1) | __round_mask(x, y))+1)

Thanks,
Yury