On 11/22/21 10:32 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:

On Mon, 2021-11-22 at 16:53 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

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The existing FIELD_{GET,PREP}() macros are limited to compile-time
constants.  However, it is very common to prepare or extract bitfield
elements where the bitfield mask is not a compile-time constant.

I'm not sure it's really a good idea to add a third API here?

We have the upper-case (constant) versions, and already
{u32,...}_get_bits()/etc.

I've used these a lot (and personally prefer the lower-case ones).

Your new macros don't do anything to ensure the field mask is
of the right form, which is basically:  (2 ^ width - 1) << shift

I really like the property that the field mask must be constant.

That being said, I've had to use some strange coding patterns
in order to adhere to the "const only" rule in a few cases.
So if you can come up with a satisfactory naming scheme I'm
all for it.

					-Alex

Also, you're using __ffs(), which doesn't work for 64-bit on 32-bit
architectures (afaict), so that seems a bit awkward.

Maybe we can make {u32,...}_get_bits() be doing compile-time only checks
if it is indeed a constant? The __field_overflow() usage is already only
done if __builtin_constant_p(v), so I guess we can do the same with
__bad_mask()?

johannes