Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 2/9] add a function to find non-zero content in a buffer

[Eric Blake]

On 03/12/2013 09:48 AM, Peter Lieven wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <address@hidden>
> ---
>  include/qemu-common.h |    1 +
>  util/cutils.c         |   30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
> 

> 
>  /*
> + * Searches for an area with non-zero content in a buffer
> + *
> + * Attention! The len must be a multiple of 8 * sizeof(VECTYPE)
> + * and addr must bedue to restriction of optimizations in this function.

s/bedue/be XXX due/

don't know what XXX is supposed to be.  Instead of stating this in a
comment...

> + *
> + * The return value is the offset of the non-zero area rounded
> + * down to 8 * sizeof(VECTYPE). If the buffer is all zero
> + * the return value is equal to len.
> + */
> +
> +size_t buffer_find_nonzero_offset(const void *buf, size_t len)
> +{

...why not instead assert() it as part of the contract?

> +    VECTYPE *p = (VECTYPE *)buf;
> +    VECTYPE zero = ZERO_SPLAT;
> +    size_t i;
> +    for (i = 0; i < len / sizeof(VECTYPE); i += 8) {
> +        VECTYPE tmp0 = p[i+0] | p[i+1];
> +        VECTYPE tmp1 = p[i+2] | p[i+3];
> +        VECTYPE tmp2 = p[i+4] | p[i+5];
> +        VECTYPE tmp3 = p[i+6] | p[i+7];
> +        VECTYPE tmp01 = tmp0 | tmp1;
> +        VECTYPE tmp23 = tmp2 | tmp3;
> +        if (!ALL_EQ(tmp01 | tmp23, zero)) {
> +            break;
> +        }
> +    }
> +    return i * sizeof(VECTYPE);
> +}
> +
> +/*
>   * Checks if a buffer is all zeroes
>   *
>   * Attention! The len must be a multiple of 4 * sizeof(long) due to

oh, probably because of copy and paste.

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