Re: [PATCH v15 1/2] math.h: provide rounddown_ull variant for rounddown MACRO

[Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 09:08:32AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > There is currently a problem with the usage of rounddown MACRO with
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> rounddown() with
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> > u64 dividends. This cause compilation error on specific arch where
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> causes
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> > 64bit division is done on 32bit system.
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> on the 32-bit
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> 
> > To be more specific GCC try optimize the function and replace it with
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> to optimize
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> > __umoddi3 but this is actually not compiled in the kernel.
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> __umoddi3()
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> > Example:
> > pwm-airoha.c:(.text+0x8f8): undefined reference to `__umoddi3'
> >
> > To better handle this, introduce a variant of rounddown MACRO,
> 
> rounddown(),

For this and the other... Is it correct to use () for MACRO?
I assume () should be used only for functions.

> 
> > rounddown_ull that can be used exactly for this scenario.
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> rounddown_ull()
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> > rounddown_ull new MACRO use the do_div MACRO that do the heavy work of
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> The rounddown_ull() is a new macro that uses do_div() to do the heavy work of
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> > handling internally all the magic for 64bit division on 32bit (and
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> for the 64-bit divisions on the 32-bit platforms (and
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> > indirectly fix the compilation error).
> 
> ...
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> > - Add this patch
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> Why are math64 APIs not usable here?
>

There isn't a rounddown API for math64.

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