linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MPILIB: Provide count_leading/trailing

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Date:	Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:04:28 +1000 (EST)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
cc:	keyrings@...ux-nfs.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@...el.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MPILIB: Provide count_leading/trailing_zeros() based on
 arch functions

On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, David Howells wrote:

> Provide count_leading/trailing_zeros() macros based on extant arch bit scanning
> functions rather than reimplementing from scratch in MPILIB.
> 
> Whilst we're at it, turn count_foo_zeros(n, x) into n = count_foo_zeros(x).
> 
> Also move the definition to asm-generic as other people may be interested in
> using it.

Please rebase this against
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security.git next


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James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>
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