[PATCH v3 1/5] lib/bitmap: add bitmap_{set,get}_value()
Alexander Potapenko
glider at google.com
Mon Jul 17 07:53:51 PDT 2023
> >
> > I remember that this construction may bring horrible code on some architectures
> > with some version(s) of the compiler (*).
>
> Wow, even the trunk Clang and GCC seem to generate better code for
> your version of this line: https://godbolt.org/z/36Kqxhe6j
Oh wait.
First, my Godbolt reproducer is incorrect, it is using sizeof(unsigned
long) instead of 8 * sizeof(unsigned long) for BITS_PER_LONG.
>
> > To fix that I found an easy refactoring:
> >
> > map[index] &= ~(GENMASK(nbits, 0) << offset));
> >
Second, the line above should probably be:
map[index] &= ~(GENMASK(nbits - 1, 0) << offset));
, right?
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