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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next v7 01/19] lib/bitmap.c: conversion routines to/from u32 array
thanks. done in v8 I am sending right now.

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 17:08:45 -0800 David Decotigny <ddecotig@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: David Decotigny <decot@googlers.com>
>>
>> Aimed at transferring bitmaps to/from user-space in a 32/64-bit agnostic
>> way.
>>
>> Tested:
>> unit tests (next patch) on qemu i386, x86_64, ppc, ppc64 BE and LE,
>> ARM.
>>
>> @@ -1060,6 +1062,90 @@ int bitmap_allocate_region(unsigned long *bitmap, unsigned int pos, int order)
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmap_allocate_region);
>>
>> /**
>> + * bitmap_from_u32array - copy the contents of a u32 array of bits to bitmap
>> + * @bitmap: array of unsigned longs, the destination bitmap, non NULL
>> + * @nbits: number of bits in @bitmap
>> + * @buf: array of u32 (in host byte order), the source bitmap, non NULL
>> + * @nwords: number of u32 words in @buf
>> + *
>> + * copy min(nbits, 32*nwords) bits from @buf to @bitmap, remaining
>> + * bits between nword and nbits in @bitmap (if any) are cleared. In
>> + * last word of @bitmap, the bits beyond nbits (if any) are kept
>> + * unchanged.
>> + */
>
> This will leave the caller not knowing how many valid bits are actually
> present in the resulting bitmap. To determine that, the caller will
> need to perform (duplicated) math on `nbits' and `nwords'.
>
>> +void bitmap_from_u32array(unsigned long *bitmap, unsigned int nbits,
>> + const u32 *buf, unsigned int nwords)
>
> So how about we make this return the number of valid bits in *bitmap?
>
>> +/**
>> + * bitmap_to_u32array - copy the contents of bitmap to a u32 array of bits
>> + * @buf: array of u32 (in host byte order), the dest bitmap, non NULL
>> + * @nwords: number of u32 words in @buf
>> + * @bitmap: array of unsigned longs, the source bitmap, non NULL
>> + * @nbits: number of bits in @bitmap
>> + *
>> + * copy min(nbits, 32*nwords) bits from @bitmap to @buf. Remaining
>> + * bits after nbits in @buf (if any) are cleared.
>> + */
>> +void bitmap_to_u32array(u32 *buf, unsigned int nwords,
>> + const unsigned long *bitmap, unsigned int nbits)
>
> Ditto.
>
>

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