[PATCH] bitops: generic hweight{64,32,16,8}()

This patch introduces the C-language equivalents of the functions below:

unsigned int hweight32(unsigned int w);
unsigned int hweight16(unsigned int w);
unsigned int hweight8(unsigned int w);
unsigned long hweight64(__u64 w);

In include/asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h

This code largely copied from: include/linux/bitops.h

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h b/include/asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..8be6f17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_BITOPS_HWEIGHT_H_
+#define _ASM_GENERIC_BITOPS_HWEIGHT_H_
+
+extern unsigned int hweight32(unsigned int w);
+extern unsigned int hweight16(unsigned int w);
+extern unsigned int hweight8(unsigned int w);
+extern unsigned long hweight64(__u64 w);
+
+#endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_BITOPS_HWEIGHT_H_ */

diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
index f827e3c..b830c9a 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/Makefile
+++ b/lib/Makefile
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ lib-$(CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK) += rwsem-spinlock.o
 lib-$(CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM) += rwsem.o
 lib-$(CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS) += semaphore-sleepers.o
 lib-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT) += find_next_bit.o
+lib-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEIGHT) += hweight.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_LOCK_KERNEL) += kernel_lock.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT) += smp_processor_id.o
 

diff --cc lib/hweight.c
Simple merge