Re: [PATCH] mask ADT: new mask.h file [2/22]

[Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>]

Don't worry, Bill.  It doesn't look like anyone wants to change
cpumask_t to struct cpumask.  I just wasn't objecting to it - shouldn't
even have mentioned it.

> so please run things by arch maintainers

I'll be doing that.  And I'm sure Andrew wouldn't consider it otherwise.

> for the love of $DEITY, **NOT** "struct cpumask_struct".

I think we can all heartily agree to that advice.

> You should also bear in mind that the current implementations of these
> operations use a macro calling convention, thereby altering their output
> operands as a side-effect without call-by-reference. 

Ah - I think you just explained to me Rusty's 'That'd be a noop', to which
I had responded 'Huh?'.  Thanks.

And the added ampersands that Rusty added a couple of messages before that.

Duh ... smacking forehead.

Output operands need to be passed by pointer (which fact may or may not
be hidden in a macro ...).

At the risk of embarrassing myself again in public, how about this:

    typedef struct { DECLARE_BITMAP(bits, NR_CPUS); } cpumask_t;

    #define cpus_or(d,s1,s2) _cpus_or(&d, &s1, &s2)

    static inline void _cpus_or(cpumask_t *d, const cpumask_t *s1, const cpumask_t *s2)
    {
	bitmap_or(d->bits, s1->bits, s2->bits, NR_CPUS);
    }

It would be used exactly as it is today:

    cpumask_t x, y, z;
    cpus_or(x, y, z);



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