I think you're right. The intent is to mask off the bits above bits_per_pixel. So if bits_per_pixel is 24, the mask would be 0xff000000. If it's 16, then the mask would be 0xffff0000. If it's 32, then the mask is 0.
In reality, bits_per_pixel is almost exclusively 32, which will end up with a mask of 0 (note that the shift result is inverted at the end). So for the majority case, there's not bug... just a useless operation.
I took a look at linux/bitops.h, and there's nothing particularly great there. GENMASK, I guess, but it's not quite right. Just switching to 0U should be fine there.
Now that I think about it, I believe these patches have already been sent in the past. I also just did the grep that I did before:
$ git grep -- '~0 >>' arch/m32r/include/asm/thread_info.h: ti->flags = (ti->flags & (~0
(32 - TI_FLAG_FAULT_CODE_SHIFT)))
arch/sh/include/asm/thread_info.h: ti->flags = (ti->flags & (~0
(32 - TI_FLAG_FAULT_CODE_SHIFT)))
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv50_fbcon.c: uint32_t mask = ~(~0 >> (32 - info->var.bits_per_pixel)); drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvc0_fbcon.c: uint32_t mask = ~(~0 >> (32 - info->var.bits_per_pixel)); drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nv_accel.c: u32 fg, bg, mask = ~(~0 >> (32 - info->var.bits_per_pixel));
which shows that these are the only ones. See email with subject "[PATCH] nvidia/noveau: Fix color mask" from June 17, 2015.
-ilia
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Rasmus Villemoes linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk wrote:
Hi,
The files
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv50_fbcon.c drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvc0_fbcon.c drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nv_accel.c
all contain a right-shift of ~0 (aka -1) - just grep for '~0 >>'. gcc always does arithmetic right shift of signed types, which means that the result is always -1 again [type promotion/conversion doesn't kick in until after the shift subexpression has been evaluated], independent of the second operand. I can hardly believe that is intended (the result is used as a mask, which thus consists of all 1s). If these are indeed bugs, the patch is obvious (just make the literal an unsigned 0).
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