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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2012-02-20 22:39:18 +0000
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2012-02-20 14:46:55 -0800
commite0891a9816316b5e05fd5b0453ffe9fd6a56f489 (patch)
tree3a600ed8fe7285749059d7fccf247d8ca910e0ac /include/asm-generic
parent7931d493051ea9b09e4fddee2dc40b2eb88d62b9 (diff)
bitops: Adjust the comment on get_order() to describe the size==0 case
Adjust the comment on get_order() to note that the result of passing a size of 0 results in an undefined value. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120220223917.16199.9416.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/getorder.h23
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/getorder.h b/include/asm-generic/getorder.h
index 67e7245dc9b..76e9687a3c8 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/getorder.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/getorder.h
@@ -5,7 +5,28 @@
#include <linux/compiler.h>
-/* Pure 2^n version of get_order */
+/**
+ * get_order - Determine the allocation order of a memory size
+ * @size: The size for which to get the order
+ *
+ * Determine the allocation order of a particular sized block of memory. This
+ * is on a logarithmic scale, where:
+ *
+ * 0 -> 2^0 * PAGE_SIZE and below
+ * 1 -> 2^1 * PAGE_SIZE to 2^0 * PAGE_SIZE + 1
+ * 2 -> 2^2 * PAGE_SIZE to 2^1 * PAGE_SIZE + 1
+ * 3 -> 2^3 * PAGE_SIZE to 2^2 * PAGE_SIZE + 1
+ * 4 -> 2^4 * PAGE_SIZE to 2^3 * PAGE_SIZE + 1
+ * ...
+ *
+ * The order returned is used to find the smallest allocation granule required
+ * to hold an object of the specified size.
+ *
+ * The result is undefined if the size is 0.
+ *
+ * This function may be used to initialise variables with compile time
+ * evaluations of constants.
+ */
static inline __attribute_const__ int get_order(unsigned long size)
{
int order;