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From: david.laight.linux@gmail.com
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
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	Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>,
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	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>,
	Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
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Cc: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>,
	Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
	Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>,
	Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH next 00/14] bits: De-bloat expansion of GENMASK()
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:57:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260121145731.3623-1-david.laight.linux@gmail.com> (raw)

From: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>

The expansion of GENMASK() is a few hundred bytes, this is often multiplied
when the value is passed to other #defines (eg FIELD_PREP).
Part of the size is due to the compile-type check (for reversed arguments),
the rest from the way the value is defined.

Nothing in these patches changes the code the compiler sees - just the
way the constants get defined.
Changing GENMASK(hi, lo) to (2 << hi) - (1 << lo) is left for further study.

I looked at getting the compiler to check for reversed arguments using
(0 >> (hi - lo)) instead of const_true(lo > hi). While checking that it
was always optimised away I discovered that you don't get an error message
if the values are only 'compile time constants', worse clang starts
throwing code away, generation an empty function for:
	int f(u32 x) {int n = 32; return x >> n; }
(Shifts by more than width are 'undefined behaviour', so what clang
does is technically valid - but not friendly or expected.)

So I added extra checks to both GENMASK() and BITxxx() to detect this
at compile time. But this bloats the output - the opposite of what I
was trying to achieve.
However these are all compile-time checks that are actually unlikely
to detect anything, they don't need to be done on every build.
I've mitigated this by adding W=c (cf W=[123e]) to the main Makefile
(adding -DKBUILD_EXTRA_WARNc) and defaulting to W=c for W=1 builds.

Adding checks to BIT() makes it no longer a pre-processor constant
so can no longer be used in #if statements (when W=c) is set.
This required minor changes to 3 files.

At some point the definition of BIT() was moved to vdso/bits.h
(followed by that for BIT_ULL()), but then the fixed size BIT_Unn()
were added to bits.h.
I've moved BIT_ULL() back to linux/bits.h and made the version of
BIT() in linux/bits.h be preferred if both files get included.
Note that the x86-64 allmodconfig build suceeds if vdso/bits.h
is empty - everything includes linux/bits.h first.

I found two non-vdso files that included vdso/bits.h and changed
them to use linux/bits.h.

GENMASK_U8() and BIT_U8() cast their result to (u8), this isn't
a good idea. While the 'type of the expression' is 'u8', integer
promotion makes the 'type of the value' 'signed int'.
This means that in code like:
	u64 v = BIT_U8(7) << 24;
the value is sign extended and all the high bits are set.
Instead change the type of the xxx_U8/U16 macros to 'unsigned int'
so that the sign extension cannot happen.
The compile-time check on the bit number is still present.

For assembler files where GENMASK() can be used for constants
the expansions from uapi/linux/bits.h were used.
However these contain BITS_PER_LONG and BITS_PER_LONG_LONG which
make no sense since the assembler doesn't have sized arithmetic.
Replace with GENMASK(hi, lo) (2 << (hi)) - (1 << (lo)) which has
the correct value without knowing the size of the integers.

The kunit tests all check compile-time values.
I've changed them to use BUILD_BUG_ON().

David Laight (14):
  overflow: Reduce expansion of __type_max()
  kbuild: Add W=c for additional compile time checks
  media: videobuf2-core: Use static_assert() for sanity check
  media: atomisp: Use static_assert() for sanity check
  ixgbevf: Use C test for PAGE_SIZE > IXGBE_MAX_DATA_PER_TXD
  asm-generic: include linux/bits.h not vdso/bits.h
  x86/tlb: include linux/bits.h not vdso/bits.h
  bits: simplify GENMASK_TYPE()
  bits: Change BIT_U8/16() and GENMASK_U8/16() to have unsigned values
  bits: Fix assmebler expansions of GENMASK_Uxx() and BIT_Uxx()
  bit: Strengthen compile-time tests in GENMASK() and BIT()
  bits: move the defitions of BIT() and BIT_ULL() back to linux/bits.h
  test_bits: Change all the tests to be compile-time tests
  test_bits: include some invalid input tests for GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK()

 arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h                    |   2 +-
 .../media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c   |   6 +-
 .../net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c |  17 +--
 .../fixedbds_1.0/ia_css_fixedbds_param.h      |   5 +-
 include/asm-generic/thread_info_tif.h         |   2 +-
 include/linux/bits.h                          |  88 ++++++++----
 include/linux/overflow.h                      |   2 +-
 include/vdso/bits.h                           |   2 +-
 lib/tests/test_bits.c                         | 130 +++++++++++-------
 scripts/Makefile.warn                         |  12 +-
 10 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-)

-- 
2.39.5


             reply	other threads:[~2026-01-21 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-21 14:57 david.laight.linux [this message]
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 01/14] overflow: Reduce expansion of __type_max() david.laight.linux
2026-01-21 20:59   ` Kees Cook
2026-02-02 16:45   ` Yury Norov
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 02/14] kbuild: Add W=c for additional compile time checks david.laight.linux
2026-02-02 18:33   ` Yury Norov
2026-02-02 20:07     ` David Laight
2026-02-03  4:47       ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-02-03 11:14         ` David Laight
2026-02-03 19:41       ` Yury Norov
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 03/14] media: videobuf2-core: Use static_assert() for sanity check david.laight.linux
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 04/14] media: atomisp: " david.laight.linux
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 05/14] ixgbevf: Use C test for PAGE_SIZE > IXGBE_MAX_DATA_PER_TXD david.laight.linux
2026-01-23 15:44   ` Simon Horman
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 06/14] asm-generic: include linux/bits.h not vdso/bits.h david.laight.linux
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 07/14] x86/tlb: " david.laight.linux
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 08/14] bits: simplify GENMASK_TYPE() david.laight.linux
2026-02-08  2:36   ` Yury Norov
2026-02-09  9:42     ` David Laight
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 09/14] bits: Change BIT_U8/16() and GENMASK_U8/16() to have unsigned values david.laight.linux
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 10/14] bits: Fix assmebler expansions of GENMASK_Uxx() and BIT_Uxx() david.laight.linux
2026-02-08  3:31   ` Yury Norov
2026-02-08 11:42     ` David Laight
2026-02-08 21:20       ` Yury Norov
2026-02-08 22:27         ` David Laight
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 11/14] bit: Strengthen compile-time tests in GENMASK() and BIT() david.laight.linux
2026-01-21 18:43   ` Vincent Mailhol
2026-01-21 19:14     ` David Laight
2026-01-22  1:11   ` kernel test robot
2026-01-22 10:25     ` David Laight
2026-01-22 20:10       ` David Laight
2026-01-22  4:41   ` kernel test robot
2026-01-22 10:33     ` David Laight
2026-01-22 14:26       ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-01-22 14:55         ` David Laight
2026-01-23  1:25         ` Philip Li
2026-01-23  8:01           ` Vincent Mailhol
2026-01-23  8:11             ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-01-23  8:20               ` Al Viro
2026-01-23  8:24                 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-01-23  8:32                   ` Vincent Mailhol
2026-01-23  8:46                     ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-01-23  1:24       ` Philip Li
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 12/14] bits: move the defitions of BIT() and BIT_ULL() back to linux/bits.h david.laight.linux
2026-01-21 15:17   ` Thomas Weißschuh
2026-01-21 19:24     ` David Laight
2026-01-22  7:39       ` Thomas Weißschuh
2026-01-22  0:50   ` kernel test robot
2026-01-22  1:23   ` kernel test robot
2026-01-22 10:30     ` David Laight
2026-02-07 22:40   ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-02-08  4:23     ` Yury Norov
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 13/14] test_bits: Change all the tests to be compile-time tests david.laight.linux
2026-02-08  4:37   ` Yury Norov
2026-02-08 11:32     ` David Laight
2026-01-21 14:57 ` [PATCH next 14/14] test_bits: include some invalid input tests for GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK() david.laight.linux

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