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From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bitops: simplify generic bit finding functions
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:29:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1209328161.14173.77.camel@brick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0804271325350.3119@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 13:26 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> >
> > No need for a sentinal if we explicitly catch the no bits/all bits set
> > cases, make it clear they are special cases returning size/BITS_PER_LONG.
> 
> These things need to be re-done anyway. David already complained that the 
> thing inlines to something much much too big.
> 
> Let's just make it not be an inline at all.

Oh, I didn't realize, I only did this because sparse started spewing out
lots of:
include/linux/bitops.h:166:32: warning: shift too big (65536) for type unsigned long

due to shift by size there, and again on line 202...I just wanted something
that sparse wouldn't warn about and was a little easier to understand to boot.

Cheers,

Harvey


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-27 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-27 20:19 [PATCH] bitops: simplify generic bit finding functions Harvey Harrison
2008-04-27 20:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-27 20:29   ` Harvey Harrison [this message]
2008-04-27 20:36     ` Al Viro
2008-04-27 20:38       ` Harvey Harrison
2008-04-27 20:38     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-27 21:02       ` Al Viro
2008-04-28 14:04   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-04-28 15:10     ` Alexander van Heukelum
2008-04-28 15:58       ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-04-28 16:25     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-28 16:47       ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-04-28 16:54         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-28 19:26           ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-04-28 19:37             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-28 21:55               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-29 10:01               ` [PATCH] bitops: remove "optimizations" Thomas Gleixner
2008-04-29 10:03                 ` David Miller
2008-04-29 12:34                   ` David Miller
2008-04-29 14:20                     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-29 22:31                       ` David Miller
2008-04-29 16:51                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-04-29 22:58                       ` David Miller
2008-04-29 23:30                         ` David Miller
2008-04-28 19:57           ` [PATCH] bitops: simplify generic bit finding functions Andi Kleen
2008-04-28 14:58   ` Alexander van Heukelum
2008-04-28 14:32 ` Alexander van Heukelum

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