On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 20:09 +0000, David Laight wrote: > From: Joe Perches > > Sent: 22 February 2022 18:43 > > > > On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 08:56 -0800, Keith Busch wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 05:50:45PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 08:45:53AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 08:31 -0800, Keith Busch wrote: > > > > > > +/ * > > > > > > + * lower_48_bits - return bits 0-47 of a number > > > > > > + * @n: the number we're accessing > > > > > > + */ > > > > > > +#define lower_48_bits(n) ((u64)((n) & 0xffffffffffffull)) > > > > > > > > > > why not make this a static inline function? > > > > > > > > Agreed. > > > > > > Sure, that sounds good to me. I only did it this way to match the > > > existing local convention, but I personally prefer the inline function > > > too. > > > > The existing convention is used there to allow the compiler to > > avoid warnings and unnecessary conversions of a u32 to a u64 when > > shifting by 32 or more bits. > > > > If it's possible to be used with an architecture dependent typedef > > like dma_addr_t, then perhaps it's reasonable to do something like: > > > > #define lower_48_bits(val) \ > > ({ \ > > typeof(val) high = lower_16_bits(upper_32_bits(val)); \ > > typeof(val) low = lower_32_bits(val); \ > > \ > > (high << 16 << 16) | low; \ > > }) > > > > and have the compiler have the return value be an appropriate type. > > The compiler could make a real pigs breakfast of that. Both gcc and clang optimize it just fine. btw: to return the same type the last line should be: (typeof(val))((high << 16 << 16) | low); otherwise the return is sizeof(int) if typeof(val) is not u64 > Oh, did you look for GENMASK([^,]*,[ 0]*) ? No, why? I did look for 47, 0 though. But it's pretty common really. $ git grep -P 'GENMASK(?:_ULL)?\s*\(\s*\d+\s*,\s*0\s*\)' | wc -l 6233 > I'd only use something GENMASK() for bit ranges. > Even then it is often easier to just write the value in hex. Mostly it's the count of the repeated f that's difficult to quickly verify visually. > I think the only time I've written anything like that recently > (last 30 years) was for some hardware registers when the documentation > user 'bit 1' for the most significant bit. Luckily the hardware I've had to deal with never did that. Not even the least significant bit too.