Commit 639b9e34 authored by Akinobu Mita's avatar Akinobu Mita Committed by Linus Torvalds

string: introduce memweight()

memweight() is the function that counts the total number of bits set in
memory area.  Unlike bitmap_weight(), memweight() takes pointer and size
in bytes to specify a memory area which does not need to be aligned to
long-word boundary.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rename `w' to `ret']
Signed-off-by: default avatarAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f7f95056
......@@ -145,4 +145,7 @@ static inline bool strstarts(const char *str, const char *prefix)
return strncmp(str, prefix, strlen(prefix)) == 0;
}
#endif
extern size_t memweight(const void *ptr, size_t bytes);
#endif /* _LINUX_STRING_H_ */
......@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ lib-y += kobject.o klist.o
obj-y += bcd.o div64.o sort.o parser.o halfmd4.o debug_locks.o random32.o \
bust_spinlocks.o hexdump.o kasprintf.o bitmap.o scatterlist.o \
string_helpers.o gcd.o lcm.o list_sort.o uuid.o flex_array.o \
bsearch.o find_last_bit.o find_next_bit.o llist.o
bsearch.o find_last_bit.o find_next_bit.o llist.o memweight.o
obj-y += kstrtox.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_KSTRTOX) += test-kstrtox.o
......
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/bug.h>
#include <linux/bitmap.h>
/**
* memweight - count the total number of bits set in memory area
* @ptr: pointer to the start of the area
* @bytes: the size of the area
*/
size_t memweight(const void *ptr, size_t bytes)
{
size_t ret = 0;
size_t longs;
const unsigned char *bitmap = ptr;
for (; bytes > 0 && ((unsigned long)bitmap) % sizeof(long);
bytes--, bitmap++)
ret += hweight8(*bitmap);
longs = bytes / sizeof(long);
if (longs) {
BUG_ON(longs >= INT_MAX / BITS_PER_LONG);
ret += bitmap_weight((unsigned long *)bitmap,
longs * BITS_PER_LONG);
bytes -= longs * sizeof(long);
bitmap += longs * sizeof(long);
}
/*
* The reason that this last loop is distinct from the preceding
* bitmap_weight() call is to compute 1-bits in the last region smaller
* than sizeof(long) properly on big-endian systems.
*/
for (; bytes > 0; bytes--, bitmap++)
ret += hweight8(*bitmap);
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(memweight);
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