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author | Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> | 2012-07-30 14:40:55 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-07-30 17:25:16 -0700 |
commit | 639b9e34f15e4b2c30068a4e4485586af0cdf709 (patch) | |
tree | a84e3277a55757dac4630e3d20bc353b195c3c10 /lib/memweight.c | |
parent | f7f95056779eb69c5fc3ac30e5cb6fd28bdbba43 (diff) | |
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string: introduce memweight()
memweight() is the function that counts the total number of bits set in
memory area. Unlike bitmap_weight(), memweight() takes pointer and size
in bytes to specify a memory area which does not need to be aligned to
long-word boundary.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rename `w' to `ret']
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/memweight.c')
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1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/memweight.c b/lib/memweight.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e35fc87 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/memweight.c @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +#include <linux/export.h> +#include <linux/bug.h> +#include <linux/bitmap.h> + +/** + * memweight - count the total number of bits set in memory area + * @ptr: pointer to the start of the area + * @bytes: the size of the area + */ +size_t memweight(const void *ptr, size_t bytes) +{ + size_t ret = 0; + size_t longs; + const unsigned char *bitmap = ptr; + + for (; bytes > 0 && ((unsigned long)bitmap) % sizeof(long); + bytes--, bitmap++) + ret += hweight8(*bitmap); + + longs = bytes / sizeof(long); + if (longs) { + BUG_ON(longs >= INT_MAX / BITS_PER_LONG); + ret += bitmap_weight((unsigned long *)bitmap, + longs * BITS_PER_LONG); + bytes -= longs * sizeof(long); + bitmap += longs * sizeof(long); + } + /* + * The reason that this last loop is distinct from the preceding + * bitmap_weight() call is to compute 1-bits in the last region smaller + * than sizeof(long) properly on big-endian systems. + */ + for (; bytes > 0; bytes--, bitmap++) + ret += hweight8(*bitmap); + + return ret; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(memweight); |