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Date:	Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:02:33 +0100
From:	Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se>
To:	Vignesh Babu BM <vignesh.babu@...ro.com>
CC:	Kernel Janitors List <kernel-janitors@...ts.osdl.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, tony.luck@...el.com,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [KJ] [PATCH] is_power_of_2 in ia64mm

Vignesh Babu BM wrote:
> Replacing (n & (n-1)) in the context of power of 2 checks
> with is_power_of_2
>
>
> diff --git a/arch/ia64/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/ia64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> index 0c7e94e..0ccc70e 100644
> --- a/arch/ia64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> +++ b/arch/ia64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
>  #include <linux/smp_lock.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>  #include <linux/sysctl.h>
> +#include <linux/log2.h>
>  #include <asm/mman.h>
>  #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
>  #include <asm/tlb.h>
> @@ -175,7 +176,7 @@ static int __init hugetlb_setup_sz(char *str)
>  		tr_pages = 0x15557000UL;
>  
>  	size = memparse(str, &str);
> -	if (*str || (size & (size-1)) || !(tr_pages & size) ||
> +	if (*str || !is_power_of_2(size) || !(tr_pages & size) ||
>  		size <= PAGE_SIZE ||
>  		size >= (1UL << PAGE_SHIFT << MAX_ORDER)) {
>  		printk(KERN_WARNING "Invalid huge page size specified\n");
>
>   
As we talked about before; is this really correct? !is_power_of_2(0) == 
true while (0 & (0-1)) == 0.

Richard Knutsson

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