netdev - RE: [PATCH next] sctp: make use of WORD

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Date:   Fri, 16 Sep 2016 09:51:56 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Marcelo Ricardo Leitner' <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     "linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org" <linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH next] sctp: make use of WORD_TRUNC macro

From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
> Sent: 15 September 2016 19:13
> No functional change. Just to avoid the usage of '&~3'.
...
> -	max_data = (asoc->pathmtu -
> -		sctp_sk(asoc->base.sk)->pf->af->net_header_len -
> -		sizeof(struct sctphdr) - sizeof(struct sctp_data_chunk)) & ~3;
> +	max_data = asoc->pathmtu -
> +		   sctp_sk(asoc->base.sk)->pf->af->net_header_len -
> +		   sizeof(struct sctphdr) - sizeof(struct sctp_data_chunk);
> +	max_data = WORD_TRUNC(max_data);

Hmmm....
Am I the only person who understands immediately what & ~3 does
but would have to grovel through the headers to find exactly what
WORD_TRUNC() does.

How big is a 'WORD' anyway??

	David