Hi all, I'm sorry for long delay with re-submission of this series As Andy mentioned in review for v3, I switched to isxdigit() where appropriate. I also removed my Marvell's signed-off-by since I don't work for them anymore.
Thanks, Yury On top of next-20190904. Similarly to recently revisited bitmap_parselist() [1], bitmap_parse() is ineffective and overcomplicated. This series reworks it, aligns its interface with bitmap_parselist() and makes usage simpler. The series also adds a test for the function and fixes usage of it in cpumask_parse() according to new design - drops the calculating of length of an input string. bitmap_parse() takes the array of numbers to be put into the map in the BE order which is reversed to the natural LE order for bitmaps. For example, to construct bitmap containing a bit on the position 42, we have to put a line '400,0'. Current implementation reads chunk one by one from the beginning ('400' before '0') and makes bitmap shift after each successful parse. It makes the complexity of the whole process as O(n^2). We can do it in reverse direction ('0' before '400') and avoid shifting, but it requires reverse parsing helpers. Tested on arm64 and BE mips. v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/27/597 v2: - strnchrnul() signature and description changed, ifdeffery and exporting removed; - test split for better demonstration of before/after changes; - minor naming and formatting issues fixed. v3: - fix bitmap_clear() misuse. - opencode in_str() helper. - simplify while() in bitmap_parse() v4: - use isxdigit() where appropriate. - clean signed-off-by list. Yury Norov (7): lib/string: add strnchrnul() bitops: more BITS_TO_* macros lib: add test for bitmap_parse() lib: make bitmap_parse_user a wrapper on bitmap_parse lib: rework bitmap_parse() lib: new testcases for bitmap_parse{_user} cpumask: don't calculate length of the input string include/linux/bitmap.h | 8 +- include/linux/bitops.h | 5 +- include/linux/cpumask.h | 4 +- include/linux/string.h | 1 + lib/bitmap.c | 196 +++++++++++++++++------------------ lib/string.c | 17 +++ lib/test_bitmap.c | 102 +++++++++++++++++- tools/include/linux/bitops.h | 9 +- 8 files changed, 225 insertions(+), 117 deletions(-) -- 2.20.1