linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] include/log2.h: Fix rounddown_pow_of

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Date:	Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:51:01 +0100
From:	Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>
To:	Andrei Warkentin <andreiw@...are.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, opensuse-kernel@...nsuse.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] include/log2.h: Fix rounddown_pow_of_two(1)

Andrei Warkentin wrote:
> 1 is a power of two, therefore rounddown_pow_of_two(1) should return 1. It
> does in case the argument is a variable but in case it's a constant it
> behaves wrong and returns 0. Probably nobody ever did it so this was never
> noticed, however net/drivers/vmxnet3 with latest GCC does and breaks on
> unicpu systems.

Obviously correct.

Reviewed-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>

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