linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/1 fyi] tools headers: Synchronize linux/bits.h with the kernel sources

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Message-ID: <aEr0ZJ60EbshEy6p@x1>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:38:12 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
	James Clark <james.clark@...aro.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...el.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr>,
	Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1 fyi] tools headers: Synchronize linux/bits.h with the
 kernel sources

tldr; Just FYI, I'm carrying this on the perf tools tree.

Full explanation:

There used to be no copies, with tools/ code using kernel headers
directly. From time to time tools/perf/ broke due to legitimate kernel
hacking. At some point Linus complained about such direct usage. Then we
adopted the current model.

See further details at:

 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/tools/include/uapi/README

To pick up the changes in this cset:

  5b572e8a9f3dcd6e ("bits: introduce fixed-type BIT_U*()")
  19408200c094858d ("bits: introduce fixed-type GENMASK_U*()")
  31299a5e02112411 ("bits: add comments and newlines to #if, #else and #endif directives")

This addresses these perf build warnings:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/include/linux/bits.h include/linux/bits.h

Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@...aro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...el.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr>
Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
---
 tools/include/linux/bits.h | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/include/linux/bits.h b/tools/include/linux/bits.h
index 14fd0ca9a6cd1733..7ad0562191153471 100644
--- a/tools/include/linux/bits.h
+++ b/tools/include/linux/bits.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #define BIT_ULL_MASK(nr)	(ULL(1) << ((nr) % BITS_PER_LONG_LONG))
 #define BIT_ULL_WORD(nr)	((nr) / BITS_PER_LONG_LONG)
 #define BITS_PER_BYTE		8
+#define BITS_PER_TYPE(type)	(sizeof(type) * BITS_PER_BYTE)
 
 /*
  * Create a contiguous bitmask starting at bit position @l and ending at
@@ -19,16 +20,68 @@
  * GENMASK_ULL(39, 21) gives us the 64bit vector 0x000000ffffe00000.
  */
 #if !defined(__ASSEMBLY__)
+
+/*
+ * Missing asm support
+ *
+ * GENMASK_U*() and BIT_U*() depend on BITS_PER_TYPE() which relies on sizeof(),
+ * something not available in asm. Nevertheless, fixed width integers is a C
+ * concept. Assembly code can rely on the long and long long versions instead.
+ */
+
 #include <linux/build_bug.h>
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/overflow.h>
+
 #define GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK(h, l) BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(const_true((l) > (h)))
-#else
+
+/*
+ * Generate a mask for the specified type @t. Additional checks are made to
+ * guarantee the value returned fits in that type, relying on
+ * -Wshift-count-overflow compiler check to detect incompatible arguments.
+ * For example, all these create build errors or warnings:
+ *
+ * - GENMASK(15, 20): wrong argument order
+ * - GENMASK(72, 15): doesn't fit unsigned long
+ * - GENMASK_U32(33, 15): doesn't fit in a u32
+ */
+#define GENMASK_TYPE(t, h, l)					\
+	((t)(GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK(h, l) +			\
+	     (type_max(t) << (l) &				\
+	      type_max(t) >> (BITS_PER_TYPE(t) - 1 - (h)))))
+
+#define GENMASK_U8(h, l)	GENMASK_TYPE(u8, h, l)
+#define GENMASK_U16(h, l)	GENMASK_TYPE(u16, h, l)
+#define GENMASK_U32(h, l)	GENMASK_TYPE(u32, h, l)
+#define GENMASK_U64(h, l)	GENMASK_TYPE(u64, h, l)
+
+/*
+ * Fixed-type variants of BIT(), with additional checks like GENMASK_TYPE(). The
+ * following examples generate compiler warnings due to -Wshift-count-overflow:
+ *
+ * - BIT_U8(8)
+ * - BIT_U32(-1)
+ * - BIT_U32(40)
+ */
+#define BIT_INPUT_CHECK(type, nr) \
+	BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(const_true((nr) >= BITS_PER_TYPE(type)))
+
+#define BIT_TYPE(type, nr) ((type)(BIT_INPUT_CHECK(type, nr) + BIT_ULL(nr)))
+
+#define BIT_U8(nr)	BIT_TYPE(u8, nr)
+#define BIT_U16(nr)	BIT_TYPE(u16, nr)
+#define BIT_U32(nr)	BIT_TYPE(u32, nr)
+#define BIT_U64(nr)	BIT_TYPE(u64, nr)
+
+#else /* defined(__ASSEMBLY__) */
+
 /*
  * BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO is not available in h files included from asm files,
  * disable the input check if that is the case.
  */
 #define GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK(h, l) 0
-#endif
+
+#endif /* !defined(__ASSEMBLY__) */
 
 #define GENMASK(h, l) \
 	(GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK(h, l) + __GENMASK(h, l))
-- 
2.49.0