[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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 6738283ac38..3710cce1664 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <linux/bitops.h>
+#include <linux/log2.h>
 #include <asm/byteorder.h>
 #include <asm/bug.h>
 
@@ -157,14 +158,6 @@ static inline int printk(const char *s, ...) { return 0; }
 
 unsigned long int_sqrt(unsigned long);
 
-static inline int __attribute_pure__ long_log2(unsigned long x)
-{
-	int r = 0;
-	for (x >>= 1; x > 0; x >>= 1)
-		r++;
-	return r;
-}
-
 static inline unsigned long
 __attribute_const__ roundup_pow_of_two(unsigned long x)
 {