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Commit f0d1b0b3 authored by David Howells's avatar David Howells Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] LOG2: Implement a general integer log2 facility in the kernel



This facility provides three entry points:

	ilog2()		Log base 2 of unsigned long
	ilog2_u32()	Log base 2 of u32
	ilog2_u64()	Log base 2 of u64

These facilities can either be used inside functions on dynamic data:

	int do_something(long q)
	{
		...;
		y = ilog2(x)
		...;
	}

Or can be used to statically initialise global variables with constant values:

	unsigned n = ilog2(27);

When performing static initialisation, the compiler will report "error:
initializer element is not constant" if asked to take a log of zero or of
something not reducible to a constant.  They treat negative numbers as
unsigned.

When not dealing with a constant, they fall back to using fls() which permits
them to use arch-specific log calculation instructions - such as BSR on
x86/x86_64 or SCAN on FRV - if available.

[akpm@osdl.org: MMC fix]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Wojtek Kaniewski <wojtekka@toxygen.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent b3d7ae5f
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@@ -25,6 +25,14 @@ config RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM
	bool
	default y

config ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U32
	bool
	default n

config ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U64
	bool
	default n

config GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT
	bool
	default y
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@@ -74,6 +74,14 @@ config RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK
config RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM
	bool

config ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U32
	bool
	default n

config ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U64
	bool
	default n

config GENERIC_HWEIGHT
	bool
	default y
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@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@ config RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK
config RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM
	bool

config ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U32
	bool
	default n

config ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U64
	bool
	default n

config GENERIC_HWEIGHT
	bool
	default y
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@@ -45,6 +45,14 @@ config GENERIC_TIME
config RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM
	bool

config ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U32
	bool
	default n

config ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U64
	bool
	default n

config GENERIC_BUST_SPINLOCK
	bool

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@@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ config RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK
config RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM
	bool

config ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U32
	bool
	default n

config ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U64
	bool
	default n

config GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT
	bool
	default y
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