netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] mlx5: Add MLX5_SET64_VCHK to fix BUILD_BUG

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Date:   Tue, 11 Oct 2016 20:57:11 +0900
From:   Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@....mellanox.co.il>
To:     David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>
Cc:     Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "saeedm@...lanox.com" <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        "kernel-team@...com" <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] mlx5: Add MLX5_SET64_VCHK to fix BUILD_BUG_ON

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 7:50 PM, David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com> wrote:
> From: Tom Herbert
>> Sent: 11 October 2016 05:22
> ...
>> Fix is to create MLX5_SET64_VCHK that takes an additional argument
>> that is a constant. There are two callers of MLX5_SET64 that are
>> trying to get a variable offset, change those to call MLX5_SET64_VCHK
>> passing pas[0] as the argument to use in the offset check.
>
> I think I'd separate the array index instead.
> Something like:
>
> #define MLX5_SET64_INDEXED(typ, p, fld, ndx, v) do { \
>         BUILD_BUG_ON(__mlx5_bit_off(typ, fld) % 64); \
>         __MLX5_SET64(typ, p, fld[ndx], v); \
> } while (0)
>
>         David

Yes, I think this looks more natural, but instead MLX5_SET64_INDEXED,
I prefer to have 2 macros
MLX5_SET64(typ, p, fld, v) and MLX5_ARRAY_SET64(typ, p, fld, idx, v).

Tom, do you want me to fix it ?

Thanks,
Saeed.