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Date:	Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:15:10 +0900
From:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	mingo@...e.hu
Cc:	fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp, joerg.roedel@....com,
	muli@...ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] export iommu_area_reserve helper funciton

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:48:49 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> 
> * FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> 
> > From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
> > Subject: [PATCH] export iommu_area_reserve helper funciton
> > 
> > x86 has set_bit_string() that does the exact same thing that
> > set_bit_area() in lib/iommu-helper.c does.
> > 
> > This patch exports set_bit_area() in lib/iommu-helper.c as
> > iommu_area_reserve(), converts GART, Calgary, and AMD IOMMU to use it.
> 
> applied the patch below to tip/x86/iommu, thanks.
> 
> > x86's set_bit_string() is used by only the above IOMMUs so this patch 
> > also removes set_bit_string. We can put it back easily when it 
> > necessary.
> 
> could you please send this as a separate patch?

Sure, no problem.

=
From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
Subject: [PATCH] x86: remove unused set_bit_string

"export iommu_area_reserve helper funciton" patch converted all the
users of set_bit_string, GART, Calgary and AMD IOMMU drivers, to use
iommu_area_reserve helper function. Now we can remove unused
set_bit_string function.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
---
 include/asm-x86/bitops.h |   10 ----------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-x86/bitops.h b/include/asm-x86/bitops.h
index 61989b9..451a747 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/bitops.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/bitops.h
@@ -424,16 +424,6 @@ static inline int fls(int x)
 
 #undef ADDR
 
-static inline void set_bit_string(unsigned long *bitmap,
-		unsigned long i, int len)
-{
-	unsigned long end = i + len;
-	while (i < end) {
-		__set_bit(i, bitmap);
-		i++;
-	}
-}
-
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
 #include <asm-generic/bitops/sched.h>
-- 
1.5.5.GIT

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