Re: [PATCH v4 04/20] rust: add new `num` module with useful integer operations

["Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>]

On Wed May 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM CEST, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> Introduce the `num` module, featuring the `NumExt` extension trait
> that expands unsigned integers with useful operations for the kernel.
>
> These are to be used by the nova-core driver, but they are so ubiquitous
> that other drivers should be able to take advantage of them as well.
>
> The currently implemented operations are:
>
> - align_down()
> - align_up()
> - fls()
>
> But this trait is expected to be expanded further.
>
> `NumExt` is on unsigned types using a macro. An approach using another
> trait constrained by the operator traits that we need (`Add`, `Sub`,
> etc) was also considered, but had to be dropped as we need to use
> wrapping operations, which are not provided by any trait.
>
> Co-developed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  rust/kernel/lib.rs |  1 +
>  rust/kernel/num.rs | 82 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 83 insertions(+)

Have you proposed `align_down` to upstream rust? Not saying that we
shouldn't do it here, but if we haven't tried yet, it might be a good
idea to just get them upstreamed. (if you do, it should probably be
named `prev_multiple_of`)

> +    /// Align `self` up to `alignment`.
> +    ///
> +    /// `alignment` must be a power of 2 for accurate results.
> +    ///
> +    /// Wraps around to `0` if the requested alignment pushes the result above the type's limits.
> +    ///
> +    /// # Examples
> +    ///
> +    /// ```
> +    /// use kernel::num::NumExt;
> +    ///
> +    /// assert_eq!(0x4fffu32.align_up(0x1000), 0x5000);
> +    /// assert_eq!(0x4000u32.align_up(0x1000), 0x4000);
> +    /// assert_eq!(0x0u32.align_up(0x1000), 0x0);
> +    /// assert_eq!(0xffffu16.align_up(0x100), 0x0);
> +    /// assert_eq!(0x4fffu32.align_up(0x0), 0x0);
> +    /// ```
> +    fn align_up(self, alignment: Self) -> Self;

Isn't this `next_multiple_of` [1] (it also allows non power of 2
inputs).

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.u32.html#method.next_multiple_of

> +
> +    /// Find Last Set Bit: return the 1-based index of the last (i.e. most significant) set bit in
> +    /// `self`.
> +    ///
> +    /// Equivalent to the C `fls` function.
> +    ///
> +    /// # Examples
> +    ///
> +    /// ```
> +    /// use kernel::num::NumExt;
> +    ///
> +    /// assert_eq!(0x0u32.fls(), 0);
> +    /// assert_eq!(0x1u32.fls(), 1);
> +    /// assert_eq!(0x10u32.fls(), 5);
> +    /// assert_eq!(0xffffu32.fls(), 16);
> +    /// assert_eq!(0x8000_0000u32.fls(), 32);
> +    /// ```
> +    fn fls(self) -> u32;

Isn't this just `trailing_zeros` [2]?

[2]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.u32.html#method.trailing_zeros

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Cheers,
Benno