Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 03/33] bitmap: provide to_le/from_le helpers

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Peter Xu (address@hidden) wrote:
> Provide helpers to convert bitmaps to little endian format. It can be
> used when we want to send one bitmap via network to some other hosts.
> 
> One thing to mention is that, these helpers only solve the problem of
> endianess, but it does not solve the problem of different word size on
> machines (the bitmaps managing same count of bits may contains different
> size when malloced). So we need to take care of the size alignment issue
> on the callers for now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <address@hidden>
> ---
>  include/qemu/bitmap.h |  7 +++++++
>  util/bitmap.c         | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 39 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/qemu/bitmap.h b/include/qemu/bitmap.h
> index a13bd28..4481975 100644
> --- a/include/qemu/bitmap.h
> +++ b/include/qemu/bitmap.h
> @@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
>   * bitmap_clear(dst, pos, nbits)             Clear specified bit area
>   * bitmap_test_and_clear_atomic(dst, pos, nbits)    Test and clear area
>   * bitmap_find_next_zero_area(buf, len, pos, n, mask)        Find bit free 
> area
> + * bitmap_to_le(dst, src, nbits)      Convert bitmap to little endian
> + * bitmap_from_le(dst, src, nbits)    Convert bitmap from little endian
>   */
>  
>  /*
> @@ -247,4 +249,9 @@ static inline unsigned long *bitmap_zero_extend(unsigned 
> long *old,
>      return new;
>  }
>  
> +void bitmap_to_le(unsigned long *dst, const unsigned long *src,
> +                  long nbits);
> +void bitmap_from_le(unsigned long *dst, const unsigned long *src,
> +                    long nbits);
> +
>  #endif /* BITMAP_H */
> diff --git a/util/bitmap.c b/util/bitmap.c
> index 3446d72..f7aad58 100644
> --- a/util/bitmap.c
> +++ b/util/bitmap.c
> @@ -370,3 +370,35 @@ long slow_bitmap_count_one(const unsigned long *bitmap, 
> long nbits)
>  
>      return result;
>  }
> +
> +static void bitmap_to_from_le(unsigned long *dst,
> +                              const unsigned long *src, long nbits)
> +{
> +    long len = BITS_TO_LONGS(nbits);
> +
> +#ifdef HOST_WORDS_BIGENDIAN
> +    long index;
> +
> +    for (index = 0; index < len; index++) {
> +# if __WORD_SIZE == 64

I think the right constant to use here is HOST_LONG_BITS

> +        dst[index] = bswap64(src[index]);
> +# else
> +        dst[index] = bswap32(src[index]);
> +# endif
> +    }
> +#else
> +    memcpy(dst, src, len * sizeof(unsigned long));
> +#endif
> +}
> +
> +void bitmap_from_le(unsigned long *dst, const unsigned long *src,
> +                    long nbits)
> +{
> +    bitmap_to_from_le(dst, src, nbits);
> +}
> +
> +void bitmap_to_le(unsigned long *dst, const unsigned long *src,
> +                  long nbits)
> +{
> +    bitmap_to_from_le(dst, src, nbits);
> +}
> -- 
> 2.7.4

Other than that;

Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>

Maybe adding a bswapl with that ifdef would be easier
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK