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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 28 Oct 2022 12:10:16 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] ARM: findbit: document ARMv5 bit offset calculation
To:     "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc:     Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
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On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 12:01 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> In contrast, the arm code doesn't do the "min()" at all, and if there
> are bits after the bitmap (in a partial byte), it will just return
> those bits.

No, I did misread the code. It returns 'size' for the no bits case,
and the 'movlo r0, r1'; does the right thing for the "bits past the
end" case too.

I guess I need to get better at reading arm asm.

                Linus