linux-toradex.git/tools/include/linux/log2.h, branch v4.11-rc3

give up on gcc ilog2() constant optimizations

2017-03-02T20:17:22+00:00

gcc-7 has an "optimization" pass that completely screws up, and
generates the code expansion for the (impossible) case of calling
ilog2() with a zero constant, even when the code gcc compiles does not
actually have a zero constant.

And we try to generate a compile-time error for anybody doing ilog2() on
a constant where that doesn't make sense (be it zero or negative).  So
now gcc7 will fail the build due to our sanity checking, because it
created that constant-zero case that didn't actually exist in the source
code.

There's a whole long discussion on the kernel mailing about how to work
around this gcc bug.  The gcc people themselevs have discussed their
"feature" in

   https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=72785

but it's all water under the bridge, because while it looked at one
point like it would be solved by the time gcc7 was released, that was
not to be.

So now we have to deal with this compiler braindamage.

And the only simple approach seems to be to just delete the code that
tries to warn about bad uses of ilog2().

So now "ilog2()" will just return 0 not just for the value 1, but for
any non-positive value too.

It's not like I can recall anybody having ever actually tried to use
this function on any invalid value, but maybe the sanity check just
meant that such code never made it out in public.

Reported-by: Laura Abbott 
Cc: John Stultz ,
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tools: Adopt roundup_pow_of_two

2014-12-17T14:58:15+00:00

To replace equivalent code used in the mmap_pages command line
parameter handling in tools/perf.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Don Zickus 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-i44zs02xt4zexfxywpklo7km@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools: Adopt rounddown_pow_of_two and deps

2014-12-17T14:58:13+00:00

Will be used to make sure we pass a power of two when automatically
setting up the perf_mmap addr range length, as the kernel code
validating input on /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb accepts any
integer, if we plain use it to set up the mmap lenght, we may get an
EINVAL when passing a non power of two.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Don Zickus 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zflvep0q01dmkruf4o291l4p@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools: Move code originally from linux/log2.h to tools/include/linux/

2014-12-17T14:09:41+00:00

From tools/perf/util/include/linux, so that it becomes accessible to
other tools/.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Don Zickus 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-uqohgzilp3ebd3cbybnf3luc@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo