bitops.h: improve sign_extend32()'s documentation
It is often overlooked that sign_extend32(), despite its name, is safe to use for 16 and 8 bit types as well. This should help prevent sign extension being done manually some other way. Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@theobroma-systems.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@st.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* sign_extend32 - sign extend a 32-bit value using specified bit as sign-bit
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* @value: value to sign extend
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* @index: 0 based bit index (0<=index<32) to sign bit
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*
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* This is safe to use for 16- and 8-bit types as well.
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static inline __s32 sign_extend32(__u32 value, int index)
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{
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