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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:36:22 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/17] bitfield: Add non-constant field_{prep,get}() helpers
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Hi Jakub,

On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 2:17 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 17:32:43 +0100 Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Mon, 2021-11-22 at 16:53 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > The existing FIELD_{GET,PREP}() macros are limited to compile-time
> > > constants.  However, it is very common to prepare or extract bitfield
> > > elements where the bitfield mask is not a compile-time constant.
> >
> > I'm not sure it's really a good idea to add a third API here?
>
> +1

Yeah, a smaller API is better.

> > We have the upper-case (constant) versions, and already
> > {u32,...}_get_bits()/etc.

TBH, I don't like the *_get_bits() API: in general, u32_get_bits() does
the same as FIELD_GET(), but the order of the parameters is different?
(*_replace_bits() seems to be useful, though)

That's why I picked field_{get,prep}().

> > Also, you're using __ffs(), which doesn't work for 64-bit on 32-bit
> > architectures (afaict), so that seems a bit awkward.
> >
> > Maybe we can make {u32,...}_get_bits() be doing compile-time only checks
> > if it is indeed a constant? The __field_overflow() usage is already only
> > done if __builtin_constant_p(v), so I guess we can do the same with
> > __bad_mask()?
>
> Either that or add decomposition macros. Are compilers still really bad
> at passing small structs by value?

Sorry, I don't get what you mean by adding decomposition macros.
Can you please elaborate?
Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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