netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: don't use __constant_cpu_to

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Message-ID: <20190316051902.GA27630@tigerII.localdomain>
Date:   Sat, 16 Mar 2019 14:19:02 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:     Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...ichev.me>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: don't use __constant_cpu_to_be32

On (03/15/19 10:24), Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
> On 03/15, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > On (03/14/19 05:42), Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > > cpu_to_be32() is capable enough to detect __builtin_constant_p()
> > > > and to use an appropriate compile time ___constant_swahb32()
> > > > function.
> See my recent commit a0517a0f7ef23 ("selftests/bpf: use
> __bpf_constant_htons in test_prog.c") where compiler was not smart
> enough to figure it out (you can google similar issues for GCC < 4.8).

Allow me to disagree.

The error in a0517a0f7ef23 says

	error: implicit declaration of function '__builtin_bswap16'

which doesn't sound like "the compiler was not smart".

Let's look at __swab16

100 #ifdef __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP16__
101 #define __swab16(x) (__u16)__builtin_bswap16((__u16)(x))
102 #else
103 #define __swab16(x)                             \
104         (__builtin_constant_p((__u16)(x)) ?     \
105         ___constant_swab16(x) :                 \
106         __fswab16(x))
107 #endif

We can call __builtin_bswap16() only when the compiler has that builtin,
which is what #ifdef __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP16__ for.

But this is not what tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_endian.h does

# define __bpf_ntohs(x)                 __builtin_bswap16(x)
# define __bpf_htons(x)                 __builtin_bswap16(x)

So I sort of suspect that what should have been done was that
__HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP16__ ifdef, just like what include/uapi/linux/swab.h
does.

	-ss