On Mon, 2024-02-12 at 15:15 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 09.02.2024 18:58, Oleksii Kurochko wrote: > > find-next-bit.c is common for Arm64, PPC and RISCV64, > > so it is moved to xen/lib. > > > > PPC has been transitioned to generic functions from find-next-bit.c > > since it now shares the same implementation as the PPC-specific > > code. > > > > The MISRA exclude list has been updated to verify > > lib/find-next-bit.c instead of Arm's find_next_bit.c, > > as Arm's find_next_bit.c has been relocated to xen/lib/. > > > > Despite CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT not currently being used in > > Xen and being removed from the Linux kernel [1], it could > > theoretically > > prove useful for Xen. This is because the Linux kernel transitioned > > Arm to the generic version of find_first_bit() and > > find_first_zero_bit() due to improvements [1] in both performance > > and .text size. > > It would be prudent to investigate whether [1] is applicable to Xen > > as well and, if so, implement the necessary changes in a separate > > patch. > > > > [1] > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arch/[email protected]/ > > > > Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]> > > Signed-off-by: Oleksii Kurochko <[email protected]> > > Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]> Thanks!
> > A revision log would have been nice, though. Missed that. In case if it will be needed a new patch version, I'll back the log. ~ Oleksii
