linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] bitfields API

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Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:46:43 +0200
From:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
To:	"Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] bitfields API

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 08:32:23PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
>> How do you feel about this patch? It's all about making kmemcheck more
>> useful... and not much else. Does it have any chance of entering the
>> kernel along with kmemcheck (when/if that happens)?
>
> DEFINE_BITFIELD is horrible.
>
>> @@ -285,11 +286,12 @@ struct sk_buff {
>>               };
>>       };
>>       __u32                   priority;
>> -     __u8                    local_df:1,
>> +     DEFINE_BITFIELD(__u8,   flags1,
>> +                             local_df:1,
>>                               cloned:1,
>>                               ip_summed:2,
>>                               nohdr:1,
>> -                             nfctinfo:3;
>> +                             nfctinfo:3);
>>       __u8                    pkt_type:3,
>>                               fclone:2,
>>                               ipvs_property:1,

Ok, that's constructive :-P

Can we skip the type and always assume that it should be __u8/uint8_t?
I read somewhere that bitfields should anyway always be 1 byte wide if
the bitfield should be "portable". Would it help (to make this less
horrible) to omit the type declaration and have just the bitfield
members as arguments to the macro?

Thanks,


Vegard

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