linux-kernel - Re: cocci script to convert linux-kernel allocs with BITS_TO_LONGS to bitmap

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Message-ID: <afd3a282ca57a4a400c8bae9879a7c57bc507c59.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sat, 10 Jul 2021 13:02:36 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
Cc:     cocci <cocci@...teme.lip6.fr>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cocci script to convert linux-kernel allocs with BITS_TO_LONGS
 to bitmap_alloc

On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 21:50 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jul 2021, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> > Here is a cocci script to convert various types of bitmap allocations
> > that use BITS_TO_LONGS to the more typical bitmap_alloc functions.
> > 
> > Perhaps something like it could be added to scripts/coccinelle.
> > The diff produced by the script is also below.
> > 
> > $ cat bitmap_allocs.cocci
> > // typical uses of bitmap allocations
[]
> > @@
> > expression val;
> > expression e1;
> > expression e2;
> > @@
> > 
> > -	val = kcalloc(BITS_TO_LONGS(e1), sizeof(*val), e2)
> > +	val = bitmap_zalloc(e1, e2)
> 
> Is there something that guarantees that val has a type that has a size that
> is the same as a long?

no, but afaict, all do.