Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] lib/test_bitmap: add tests for bitmap_{read,write}()

[Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 3:09 PM Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 2:23 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 02:16:37PM +0200, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > > +/*
> > > > + * Test bitmap should be big enough to include the cases when start is not in
> > > > + * the first word, and start+nbits lands in the following word.
> > > > + */
> > > > +#define TEST_BIT_LEN (1000)
> > >
> > > Dunno why this didn't fire previously, but CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN=y
> > > kernel reports mismatches here, presumably because the last quad word
> > > ends up partially initialized.
> >
> > Hmm... But if designed and used correctly it shouldn't be the issue,
> > and 1000, I believe, is carefully chosen to be specifically not dividable
> > by pow-of-2 value.
> >
>
> The problem manifests already right after initialization:
>
> static void __init test_bit_len_1000(void)
> {
>         DECLARE_BITMAP(bitmap, TEST_BIT_LEN);
>         DECLARE_BITMAP(exp_bitmap, TEST_BIT_LEN);
>         memset(bitmap, 0x00, TEST_BYTE_LEN);
>         memset(exp_bitmap, 0x00, TEST_BYTE_LEN);
>         expect_eq_bitmap(exp_bitmap, bitmap, TEST_BIT_LEN);
> }

The problem is that there's no direct analog of memset() that can be
used to initialize bitmaps on both BE and LE systems.
bitmap_zero() and bitmap_set() work by rounding up the bitmap size to
BITS_TO_LONGS(nbits), but there's no bitmap_memset() that would do the
same for an arbitrary byte pattern.
We could call memset(..., ..., BITS_TO_LONGS(TEST_BIT_LEN)), but that
would be similar to declaring a bigger bitmap and not testing the last
24 bits.

Overall, unless allocating and initializing bitmaps with size
divisible by sizeof(long), most of bitmap.c is undefined behavior, so
I don't think it makes much sense to specifically test this case here
(given that we do not extend bitmap_equal() in the patch set).

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