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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] minmax: clamp more efficiently by avoiding extra comparison
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 13:35:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yy2MDWCHTW0M3Z6i@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220923100621.3888015-1-Jason@zx2c4.com>

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 12:06:21PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Currently the clamp algorithm does:
> 
> 	if (val > hi)
> 		val = hi;
> 	if (val < lo)
> 		val = lo;
> 
> But since hi > lo by definition, this can be made more efficient with:

It's strongly speaking, but we have to proof that, right?
So, while I haven't checked the code, this change should also
include (does it?) the corresponding compile-time checks (for
constant arguments) in similar way how it's done for GENMASK().

Otherwise I have no objections.

> 	if (val > hi)
> 		val = hi;
> 	else if (val < lo)
> 		val = lo;
> 
> So fix up the clamp and clamp_t functions to do this, adding the same
> argument checking as for min and min_t.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-23 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-23 10:06 [PATCH] minmax: clamp more efficiently by avoiding extra comparison Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-09-23 10:35 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2022-09-23 10:40   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-09-23 10:48     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-09-23 15:12       ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-09-23 15:13         ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-09-23 15:40           ` [PATCH v2] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-09-23 16:41             ` Kees Cook
2022-09-23 16:42               ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-09-23 16:53               ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-09-23 16:54                 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-09-23 19:47             ` Kees Cook
2022-09-23 22:54             ` Andrew Morton
2022-09-24  0:02               ` Kees Cook
2022-09-24 10:37               ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-09-25 16:29                 ` Andrew Morton
2022-09-26 10:00                 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-09-26 12:23                   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-09-26 13:34                     ` [PATCH v3 1/2] minmax: sanity check constant bounds when clamping Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-09-26 13:34                       ` [PATCH v3 2/2] minmax: clamp more efficiently by avoiding extra comparison Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-09-26 18:30                         ` Kees Cook
2022-09-26 21:33                           ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-09-26 13:46                       ` [PATCH v3 1/2] minmax: sanity check constant bounds when clamping Andy Shevchenko
2022-09-26 18:26                       ` Kees Cook
2022-10-04 13:41                         ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-10-04 14:39                           ` Kees Cook
2022-10-04 15:01                             ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-09-26 18:30                     ` [PATCH v2] minmax: clamp more efficiently by avoiding extra comparison Kees Cook
2022-09-23 15:10     ` [PATCH] " Andy Shevchenko
2022-09-23 15:11       ` Jason A. Donenfeld

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