lib: bitmap: make nbits parameter of bitmap_empty unsigned
Many functions in lib/bitmap.c start with an expression such as lim =
bits/BITS_PER_LONG. Since bits has type (signed) int, and since gcc
cannot know that it is in fact non-negative, it generates worse code
than it could. These patches, mostly consisting of changing various
parameters to unsigned, gives a slight overall code reduction:
[The increases in __bitmap_and{,not} are due to bug fixes 17/18,18/18.
No idea why bitmap_weight suddenly appears.] While 163 bytes treewide is
insignificant, I believe the bitmap functions are often called with
locks held, so saving even a few cycles might be worth it.
While making these changes, I found a few other things that might be
worth including. 16,17,18 are actual bug fixes. The rest shouldn't
change the behaviour of any of the functions, provided no-one passed
negative nbits values. If something should come up, it should be fairly
bisectable.
A few issues I thought about, but didn't know what to do with:
* Many of the functions misbehave if nbits is compile-time 0; the
out-of-line functions generally handle 0 correctly. bitmap_fill() is
particularly bad, whether the 0 is known at compile time or not. It
would probably be nice to add detection of at least compile-time 0 and
handle that appropriately.
* I didn't change __bitmap_shift_{left,right} to use unsigned because I
want to fully understand why the algorithm works before making that
change. However, AFAICT, they behave correctly for all (positive) shift
amounts. This is not the case for the small_const_nbits versions. If
for example nbits = n = BITS_PER_LONG, the shift operators turn into
no-ops (at least on x86), so one get *dst = *src, whereas one would
expect to get *dst=0. That difference in behaviour is somewhat
annoying.
This patch (of 18):
The compiler can generate slightly smaller and simpler code when it
knows that "nbits" is non-negative. Since no-one passes a negative
bit-count, this shouldn't affect the semantics.