[PATCH v3 1/4] media: rkvdec: Introduce a global bitwriter helper
Nicolas Dufresne
nicolas.dufresne at collabora.com
Wed Apr 29 11:17:40 PDT 2026
Le jeudi 02 avril 2026 à 10:06 -0400, Detlev Casanova a écrit :
> The use of structures with bitfields is good when the values are
> somewhat aligned.
> More mis-alignement means that compilers need to do more gymanstics
gymnastics
> to edit the fields values.
>
> Some cases have been reported with CLang on specific architectures
> like armhf and hexagon, where the compiler would allocate a bigger
> local stack than needed or even completely freeze during compilation.
>
> Some fixes have been provided to ease the issues, but the real fix
> here is to use a bitwriter instead of heavily unaligned bitfields.
>
> This is a preparation commit to provide a global bitwriter interface
> for the whole driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Detlev Casanova <detlev.casanova at collabora.com>
> ---
> .../platform/rockchip/rkvdec/rkvdec-bitwriter.h | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/rockchip/rkvdec/rkvdec-bitwriter.h b/drivers/media/platform/rockchip/rkvdec/rkvdec-bitwriter.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..2a5c271ade91
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/rockchip/rkvdec/rkvdec-bitwriter.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +/*
> + * Rockchip Video Decoder bit writer
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2026 Collabora, Ltd.
> + * Detlev Casanova <detlev.casanova at collabora.com>
> + * Copyright (C) 2019 Collabora, Ltd.
> + * Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at collabora.com>
nit: indent it the same for for your name.
I will do the edits if I find now other issues in the series.
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne at collabora.com>
> + */
> +
> +#ifndef RKVDEC_BIT_WRITER_H_
> +#define RKVDEC_BIT_WRITER_H_
> +
> +#include <linux/types.h>
> +#include <linux/bits.h>
> +
> +struct rkvdec_bw_field {
> + u16 offset;
> + u8 len;
> +};
> +
> +#define BW_FIELD(_offset, _len) ((struct rkvdec_bw_field){ _offset, _len })
> +
> +static inline void rkvdec_set_bw_field(u32 *buf, struct rkvdec_bw_field field, u32 value)
> +{
> + u8 bit = field.offset % 32;
> + u16 word = field.offset / 32;
> + u64 mask = GENMASK_ULL(bit + field.len - 1, bit);
> + u64 val = ((u64)value << bit) & mask;
> +
> + buf[word] &= ~mask;
> + buf[word] |= val;
> + if (bit + field.len > 32) {
> + buf[word + 1] &= ~(mask >> 32);
> + buf[word + 1] |= val >> 32;
> + }
> +}
> +
> +#endif /* RKVDEC_BIT_WRITER_H_ */
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