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From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:37:33 -0600
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] exec: Fix non-power-of-2 sized accesses
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To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
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On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 08:27 -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 08/16/2013 05:50 AM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > +    /* Size must be a power of 2 */
> > +    if (l & (l - 1)) {
> > +        while (l & (access_size_max - 1)) {
> > +            access_size_max >>= 1;
> > +        }
> > +    }
> > +
> 
> Why the loop at all?  x & -x extracts the lsb of x.

l = 5, we want 4, not 1.  Thanks,

Alex