Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add primitives for manipulating bitfields both in host- and fixed-endian.

Al Viro
2017-12-15T05:34:08Z

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 09:07:13PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Looks great to me!
>
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 02:33:43 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > The following primitives are defined in linux/bitfield.h:
> >
> > * u32 le32_get_bits(__le32 val, u32 field) extracts the contents of the
> > bitfield specified by @field in little-endian 32bit value @val and
> > converts it to host-endian.
> >
> > * void le32p_replace_bits(__le32 *p, u32 v, u32 field) replaces
> > the contents of the bitfield specified by @field in little-endian
> > 32bit object pointet to by *p with the value of @v. New value is
> > given in host-endian and stored as little-endian.
> >
> > * __le32 le32_replace_bits(__le32 old, u32 v, u32 field) is equivalent to
> > ({__le32 tmp = old; le32p_replace_bits(&old, v, field); tmp;})
> > In other words, instead of modifying an object in memory, it takes
> > the initial value and returns the modified one.
>
> the current macros take filed/mask as first param, not sure if it's
> worth maintaining the order

Umm... For something like Haskell that would be more natural (as in
replace_foo = replace_field foo), but it's C - no partially applied
functions here...

While we are at it, to cover the FIELD_PREP users it might make sense to
add

__le32 le32_encode_bits(u32 v, u32 field)
{
if (__builtin_constant_p(v) &&
(v & ~(field/mask_to_multiplier(field))))
__field_overflow();
return cpu_to_le32((v * mask_to_multiplier(field)) & field);
}

turning the body of le32_replace_bits into
return (old & ~cpu_to_le32(field)) | le32_encode_bits(v, field);