Subject: [RFC PATCH] create generic alignment api (v2)

From: [email-masked] (Mathieu Desnoyers)
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:29:11 -0400

* Imre Deak (imre.deak at nokia.com) wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 03:22:47AM +0200, ext Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> >  [...]
> > +/**
> > + * offset_align - Calculate the offset needed to align an object on its natural
> > + *                alignment towards higher addresses.
> > + * @align_drift:  object offset from an "alignment"-aligned address.
> > + * @alignment:    natural object alignment. Must be non-zero, power of 2.
> > + *
> > + * Returns the offset that must be added to align towards higher
> > + * addresses.
> > + */
> > +static inline size_t offset_align(size_t align_drift, size_t alignment)
> > +{
> > +	return (alignment - align_drift) & (alignment - 1);
> > +}
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * offset_align_floor - Calculate the offset needed to align an object
> > + *                      on its natural alignment towards lower addresses.
> > + * @align_drift:  object offset from an "alignment"-aligned address.
> > + * @alignment:    natural object alignment. Must be non-zero, power of 2.
> > + *
> > + * Returns the offset that must be substracted to align towards lower addresses.
> > + */
> > +static inline size_t offset_align_floor(size_t align_drift, size_t alignment)
> > +{
> > +	return (align_drift - alignment) & (alignment - 1);
> > +}
> > +
> > +#define object_align(object)						       \
> > +	((typeof(object))((size_t) object + offset_align((size_t) object,      \
> > +			  sizeof(object))))
> > +
> > +#define object_align_floor(object)					       \
> > +	((typeof(object))((size_t) object - offset_align_floor((size_t) object,\
> > +			  sizeof(object))))
> > +
> 
> Here object must be a pointer, but then sizeof(object) will result in
> aligning to the arch word size not the object's natural alignment. Is
> this what you intended?

Nope, should be sizeof(*object). Good catch. I did the object_align*() macros
specifically as "helper" functions for your needs.

I'll repost a v3.

Thanks,

Mathieu

> --Imre

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Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
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