linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] rbtree: correct mask for extracting node's parent

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Date:	Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:01:16 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	zijun_hu <zijun_hu@...o.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, dhowells@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, zijun_hu@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] rbtree: correct mask for extracting node's parent

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 04:19:10PM +0800, zijun_hu wrote:
> From: zijun_hu <zijun_hu@....com>
> 
> for LP64 ABI, struct rb_node aligns at 8 bytes boundary due to
> sizeof(long) == 8 normally, so 0x07 should be used to extract
> node's parent rather than 0x03

Doesn't matter though, in practise. The remaining bits are always 0.