[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.

[[email protected]: MMC fix]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: Wojtek Kaniewski <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
David Howells 2006-12-08 02:37:49 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit f0d1b0b30d
36 changed files with 384 additions and 28 deletions

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@ -597,8 +597,6 @@ static int ext2_check_descriptors (struct super_block * sb)
return 1;
}
#define log2(n) ffz(~(n))
/*
* Maximal file size. There is a direct, and {,double-,triple-}indirect
* block limit, and also a limit of (2^32 - 1) 512-byte sectors in i_blocks.
@ -834,9 +832,9 @@ static int ext2_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
sbi->s_sbh = bh;
sbi->s_mount_state = le16_to_cpu(es->s_state);
sbi->s_addr_per_block_bits =
log2 (EXT2_ADDR_PER_BLOCK(sb));
ilog2 (EXT2_ADDR_PER_BLOCK(sb));
sbi->s_desc_per_block_bits =
log2 (EXT2_DESC_PER_BLOCK(sb));
ilog2 (EXT2_DESC_PER_BLOCK(sb));
if (sb->s_magic != EXT2_SUPER_MAGIC)
goto cantfind_ext2;