Re: [PATCH] mm/slab_common: use helper function is_power_of_2()

[Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>]

On 2022/2/17 17:23, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 2/17/22 10:16, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>> Use helper function is_power_of_2() to check if KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE is power
>> of two. Minor readability improvement.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
> 
> We can try, but in case some compiler will no longer able to perform the
> check at build-time (although is_power_of_2() looks sufficiently trivial
> too), we'll have to revert it.

I see. I checked the compiler in my env but there might be some compilers can't
perform the check at build-time.

Many thanks for your reply.

> 
>> ---
>>  mm/slab_common.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
>> index 23f2ab0713b7..6ee64d6208b3 100644
>> --- a/mm/slab_common.c
>> +++ b/mm/slab_common.c
>> @@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ void __init setup_kmalloc_cache_index_table(void)
>>  	unsigned int i;
>>  
>>  	BUILD_BUG_ON(KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE > 256 ||
>> -		(KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE & (KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE - 1)));
>> +		!is_power_of_2(KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE));
>>  
>>  	for (i = 8; i < KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE; i += 8) {
>>  		unsigned int elem = size_index_elem(i);
> 
> .
>