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From: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
To: mingo@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux@horizon.com,
	linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk, maxime.coquelin@st.com,
	dvlasenk@redhat.com, yury.norov@gmail.com,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: bitops.h: improve sign extending API
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:18:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1444925909-6013-1-git-send-email-martink@posteo.de> (raw)

PATCH 1/2 improves the doc of sign_extend32()

This should help to avoid different manual approaches to sign extension


PATCH 2/2 adds sign_extend64()

An informal example of what could follow in
arch/sh/kernel/traps_64.c after PATCH 2/2:

@@ -101,7 +102,7 @@ static int generate_and_check_address(struct pt_regs *regs,
                __s64 displacement;
                displacement = (opcode >> 10) & 0x3ff;
-               displacement = ((displacement << 54) >> 54); /* sign extend */
+               displacement = sign_extend64(displacement, 9);
                addr = (__u64)((__s64)base_address + (displacement << width_shift));
        } else {



             reply	other threads:[~2015-10-15 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-15 16:18 Martin Kepplinger [this message]
2015-10-15 16:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] bitops.h: Improve sign_extend32()'s documentation Martin Kepplinger
2015-10-15 18:06   ` George Spelvin
2015-10-15 16:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] bitops.h: add sign_extend64() Martin Kepplinger

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