Re: [PATCH 1/5] ARM: findbit: document ARMv5 bit offset calculation

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 12:01:00PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Hmm. Interestingly, your _find_first_zero_bit_le() (which
> find_next_bit ends up using except for the first byte) ends up doing
> an optimization that is technically not valid.
> 
> In particular, the *generic* code does
> 
>                         sz = min(idx * BITS_PER_LONG + __ffs(MUNGE(val)), sz);
> 
> for the final result.
> 
> In contrast, the arm code doesn't do the "min()" at all, and if there
> are bits after the bitmap (in a partial byte), it will just return
> those bits.

You've missed how the min() is coded. Specifically, that's handled by:

  cc:   e1510000        cmp     r1, r0
  d0:   31a00001        movcc   r0, r1

which clamps the returned index to the size of the array (held in r1).
So everything is in fact fine - and I think your analysis is incorrect.

Please could you take another look and evaluate whether you think the
arm assembly is incorrect.

I kind'a stopped reading here on the assumption that the remainder of
your email was based on this misinterpretation of the code.

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