linux-kernel - Re: Yet more ARM breakage in linux-next

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Date:	Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:06:16 -0500 (EST)
From:	Nicolas Pitre <nico@....org>
To:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: Yet more ARM breakage in linux-next

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Russell King wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:52:44AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 December 2008 07:11:09 Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 19:29:05 +0000
> > >
> > > Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > > > This seems to be causing lots of ARM breakage:
> > > >
> > > > lib/find_next_bit.c:183: error: implicit declaration of function '__fls'
> > > >
> > > > Whoever's responsible,
> > >
> > > git-blame?
> > 
> > It's me.  Turns out sparc, avr32 and arm all don't define __fls in their
> > asm/bitops.h, and I'm the first one to use it in generic code.
> > 
> > But as I prepared this patch, I note that the armv5 __fls/fls is wrong:
> 
> __fls is wrong.

__fls used to _not_ exist at all on ARM until commit 0c65f459ce.

> >   /* Implement fls() in C so that 64-bit args are suitably truncated */
> >   static inline int fls(int x)
> >   {
> >       return __fls(x);
> >   }
> > 
> > __fls(x) returns a bit number (0-31).  fls() returns 0 or bitnumber+1.
> 
> The 'clz' instruction returns 32 for a zero input, or (31 - most significant
> set bit) - which seems to work for fls() but not __fls().

... and it looks like the person who introduced the commit above didn't 
take into account the fact that __fls() already had another semantic in 
the kernel.

> Sending to Nicolas.

I queued a fix addressing both issues for RMK to merge:

  http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=5339/1


Nicolas
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