* Wei Wang (wei.w.w...@intel.com) wrote:
> On 08/07/2018 03:39 PM, Peter Xu wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 06:01:18PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> > > When "nbits = 0", which means no bits to mask, this macro is expected to
> > > return 0, instead of 0xffffffff. This patch changes the macro to return
> > > 0 when there is no bit needs to be masked.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.w...@intel.com>
> > > CC: Juan Quintela <quint...@redhat.com>
> > > CC: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilb...@redhat.com>
> > > CC: Peter Xu <pet...@redhat.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <pet...@redhat.com>
> > 
> > Is there any existing path that can trigger this nbits==0?
> 
> Not sure about other bitmap APIs which call this macro. But it happens in
> the patches we are working on, which use bitmap_count_one.
> It would be good to have the macro itself handle this corner case, so that
> callers won't need to worry about that.

Given that I see you're having a similar discussion on the kernel list
we should see how that pans out before making qemu changes.

Dave

> Best,
> Wei
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK

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