Hi Michal,

> On Sep 5, 2023, at 15:31, Michal Orzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> When running with SMMUv3 and UBSAN enabled on arm64, there are a lot of
> warnings printed related to shifting into sign bit in generic_fls()
> as it takes parameter of type int.
> 
> Example:
> (XEN) UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in ./include/xen/bitops.h:69:11
> (XEN) left shift of 134217728 by 4 places cannot be represented in type 'int'
> 
> It does not make a lot of sense to ask for the last set bit of a negative
> value. We don't have a direct user of this helper and all the wrappers
> pass value of type unsigned {int,long}.
> 
> Linux did the same as part of commit:
> 3fc2579e6f16 ("fls: change parameter to unsigned int")
> 
> To keep consistency between the helpers, take the opportunity to:
> - replace __inline__ with inline,
> - modify generic_ffs() to take parameter of type unsigned int as well
>   (currently no user and the only wrapper generic_ffsl() passes unsigned
>   long).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Orzel <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Henry Wang <[email protected]>

Kind regards,
Henry


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