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From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@st.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, <tytso@mit.edu>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	<kernel@stlinux.com>, <eric.paire@st.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] bitops: Fix shift overflow in GENMASK macros
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 11:47:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5458AEC5.5020606@st.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141104104414.GL3337@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>


On 11/04/2014 11:44 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 11:03:57AM +0100, Maxime COQUELIN wrote:
>
>> -#define GENMASK(h, l)		(((U32_C(1) << ((h) - (l) + 1)) - 1) << (l))
>> -#define GENMASK_ULL(h, l)	(((U64_C(1) << ((h) - (l) + 1)) - 1) << (l))
>> +#define GENMASK(h, l)     ((~0UL >> (BITS_PER_LONG - (h - l + 1))) << l)
>> +#define GENMASK_ULL(h, l) ((~0ULL >> (BITS_PER_LONG_LONG - (h - l + 1))) << l)
> OK, so you need to keep the (h) and (l) bits, macro arguments should be
> wrapped in seemingly superfluous braces in order to preserve precedence
> on expansion.
You're right, I should have  seen this..
>
> My bad for not explicitly doing that when suggesting the alternative.
Not a problem, v3 is coming.

Maxime

      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-04 10:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-04 10:03 [PATCH v2] bitops: Fix shift overflow in GENMASK macros Maxime COQUELIN
2014-11-04 10:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-11-04 10:47   ` Maxime Coquelin [this message]

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