Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] exec: Fix non-power-of-2 sized accesses

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 17/08/2013 10:23, Laszlo Ersek ha scritto:
> What Paolo posted seems almost identical.
> 
> clz32(l):                     leading zeros in "l"
> qemu_fls(l) == 32 - clz32(l): position of leftmost bit set, 1-based
> qemu_fls(l) - 1:              position of leftmost bit set, 0-based
> 
> Not sure if the (l & (l - 1)) check is needed in Paolo's patch. clz32()
> is not generally usable when l==0, so maybe that's (too) what the check
> is for. OTOH maybe l==0 is not even possible when entering
> memory_access_size().

The check was an attempt at placating complaints about possible
performance problems. :)

> Second, Paolo's patch might lack the "max(3, ...)" part. Since you
> didn't call my previous example with l==9 retarded, I guess clamping
> (qemu_fls(l) - 1) at 3 would be necessary.

That shouldn't happen, since an uint64_t is all you have for the datum.
 access_size_max should never exceed 8.

I don't really care which patch goes in, Alex's is fine as well.

Paolo