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Commit 89c1e79e authored by Rasmus Villemoes's avatar Rasmus Villemoes Committed by Linus Torvalds
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linux/bitmap.h: improve BITMAP_{LAST,FIRST}_WORD_MASK



The macro BITMAP_LAST_WORD_MASK can be implemented without a conditional,
which will generally lead to slightly better generated code (221 bytes
saved for allmodconfig-GCOV_KERNEL, ~2k with GCOV_KERNEL).  As a small
bonus, this also ensures that the nbits parameter is expanded exactly
once.

In BITMAP_FIRST_WORD_MASK, if start is signed gcc is technically allowed
to assume it is positive (or divisible by BITS_PER_LONG), and hence just
do the simple mask.  It doesn't seem to use this, and even on an
architecture like x86 where the shift only depends on the lower 5 or 6
bits, and these bits are not affected by the signedness of the expression,
gcc still generates code to compute the C99 mandated value of start %
BITS_PER_LONG.  So just use a mask explicitly, also for consistency with
BITMAP_LAST_WORD_MASK.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGeorge Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 8a72ed6f
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