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Don't force the inputs to be 'unsigned long', when the comparison can easily be done in 32-bit if that's more appropriate. Note that while we can look at the inputs to choose an appropriate size for the compare instruction, the output is fixed at 'unsigned long'. That's not technically optimal either, since a 32-bit 'sbbl' would often be sufficient. But for the outgoing mask we don't know how the mask ends up being used (ie we have uses that have an incoming 32-bit array index, but end up using the mask for other things). That said, it only costs the extra REX prefix to always generate the 64-bit mask. [ A 'sbbl' also always technically generates a 64-bit mask, but with the upper 32 bits clear: that's fine for when the incoming index that will be masked is already 32-bit, but not if you use the mask to mask a pointer afterwards, like the file table lookup does ] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.