Re: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] bits: introduce fixed-type genmasks

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Feb 22 2024 - 10:04:26 EST


On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 06:49:59AM -0800, Yury Norov wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 03:59:06PM -0600, Lucas De Marchi wrote:

..

> +#define __GENMASK(t, h, l) \
> + ((~0 - (1 << (l)) + 1) & (~0 >> (BITS_PER_LONG - 1 - (h))))

What's wrong on using the UL/ULL() macros?

Also it would be really good to avoid bifurcation of the implementations of
__GENMASK() for both cases.

..

> -#define __GENMASK(h, l) \
> - (((~UL(0)) - (UL(1) << (l)) + 1) & \
> - (~UL(0) >> (BITS_PER_LONG - 1 - (h))))

This at bare minimum can be left untouched for asm case, no?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko