[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: David 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index cace22b..18f0e04 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3244,7 +3244,7 @@
if (numentries > max)
numentries = max;
- log2qty = long_log2(numentries);
+ log2qty = ilog2(numentries);
do {
size = bucketsize << log2qty;
@@ -3266,7 +3266,7 @@
printk("%s hash table entries: %d (order: %d, %lu bytes)\n",
tablename,
(1U << log2qty),
- long_log2(size) - PAGE_SHIFT,
+ ilog2(size) - PAGE_SHIFT,
size);
if (_hash_shift)