linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] x86: merge the simple bitops and move them to bitops.h

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Message-ID: <20080321123548.GL25225@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:35:48 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...lshack.com>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86: merge the simple bitops and move them to
	bitops.h


* Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...lshack.com> wrote:

> x86: merge the simple bitops and move them to bitops.h.
> 
> Some of those can be written in such a way that the same inline 
> assembly can be used to generate both 32 bit and 64 bit code.
> 
> For ffs and fls, x86_64 unconditionally used the cmov instruction and 
> i386 unconditionally used a conditional branch over a mov instruction. 
> In the current patch I chose to select the version based on the 
> availability of the cmov instruction instead. A small detail here is 
> that x86_64 did not previously set CONFIG_X86_CMOV=y.
> 
> Improved comments for ffs, ffz, fls and variations.

thanks Alexander, applied.

	Ingo
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