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SubjectRe: [2.6.6-BK] x86_64 has buggy ffs() implementation
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Followup to:  <1084369416.16624.53.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk>
By author: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hi Andi, Andrew, Linus,
>
> x86_64 has incorrect include/asm-x86_64/bitops.h::ffs() implementation.
> It uses "g" instead of "rm" in the insline assembled bsfl instruction.
> (This was spotted by Yuri Per.)
>
> bsfl does not accept constant values but only memory ones. On i386 the
> correct "rm" is used.
>
> This causes NTFS build to fail as gcc optimizes a variable into a
> constant and ffs() then fails to assemble.
>

Of course, this is a good reason to do a __builtin_constant_p()
wrapper that gcc can optimize:

static __inline__ __attribute_const__ int ffs(int x)
{
if ( __builtin_constant_p(x) ) {
unsigned int y = (unsigned int)x;
if ( y >= 0x80000000 )
return 32;
else if ( y >= 0x40000000 )
return 31;
else if /* ... you get the idea ... */
} else {
__asm__("bsfl %1,%0\n\t"
"cmovzl %2,%0"
: "=r" (r) : "rm" (x), "r" (-1));
return r+1;
}
}

-hpa
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