linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 17/21] rust: num: Add an upward alignment helper for usize

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Message-ID: <a5d078a5-2995-4fcd-bdfa-096e544db07a@nvidia.com>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2025 17:52:24 -0400
From: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@...dia.com>
To: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>, Timur Tabi <ttabi@...dia.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 17/21] rust: num: Add an upward alignment helper for
 usize



On 5/1/2025 5:02 PM, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Fri May 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM JST, Timur Tabi wrote:
>> On Thu, 2025-05-01 at 21:58 +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
>>
>>
>>> +impl UsizeAlign for usize {
>>> +    fn align_up(mut self, align: usize) -> usize {
>>> +        self = (self + align - 1) & !(align - 1);
>>> +        self
>>> +    }
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +/// Aligns `val` upwards to the nearest multiple of `align`.
>>> +pub const fn usize_align_up(val: usize, align: usize) -> usize {
>>> +    (val + align - 1) & !(align - 1)
>>> +}
>>
>> Why not have usize_align_up() just return "val.align_up(align)"?
>>
>> But why why two versions at all?  Is there any context where you could use one
>> and not the other?
> 
> The second version can be used in const context to create values at
> compile-time, something the first one cannot do. If we want to factorize
> things out we can probably make the first version call the second one
> though.

True. By the way, Timur suggested me to factor it out in a chat so I already did
that in my tree. thanks,

 - Joel