linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/49] KVM: x86: replace bitmap_weight with bitmap

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Date:   Fri, 11 Feb 2022 16:34:40 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>,
        Emil Renner Berthing <kernel@...il.dk>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@...rohmeurope.com>,
        Alexey Klimov <aklimov@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
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        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
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        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/49] KVM: x86: replace bitmap_weight with bitmap_empty
 where appropriate

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022, Yury Norov wrote:
> In some places kvm/hyperv.c code calls bitmap_weight() to check if any bit
> of a given bitmap is set. It's better to use bitmap_empty() in that case
> because bitmap_empty() stops traversing the bitmap as soon as it finds
> first set bit, while bitmap_weight() counts all bits unconditionally.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
> Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>