linux/arch/ia64
David Howells f0d1b0b30d [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>
2006-12-08 08:28:51 -08:00
..
configs [IA64] update sn2_defconfig 2006-10-17 14:55:45 -07:00
dig [PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.h 2006-07-10 13:24:16 -07:00
hp [IA64] replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc 2006-12-07 13:46:43 -08:00
ia32 [PATCH] struct path: convert ia64 2006-12-08 08:28:45 -08:00
kernel [PATCH] struct path: convert ia64 2006-12-08 08:28:45 -08:00
lib [IA64] tidy up return value of ip_fast_csum 2006-12-07 11:19:59 -08:00
mm [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_KERNEL 2006-12-07 08:39:24 -08:00
oprofile Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
pci [IA64] replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc 2006-12-07 13:46:43 -08:00
scripts Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
sn [IA64] SN: Correctly update smp_affinty mask 2006-12-07 10:50:09 -08:00
Kconfig [PATCH] LOG2: Implement a general integer log2 facility in the kernel 2006-12-08 08:28:51 -08:00
Kconfig.debug [PATCH] Move Kprobes and Oprofile to "Instrumentation Support" menu 2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
Makefile [IA64] add vmlinuz target 2006-06-21 14:31:07 -07:00
defconfig [PATCH] sgiioc4: Always share IRQ 2006-07-31 13:28:40 -07:00
install.sh Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
module.lds Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00