linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] core/hweight changes for v2.6.35

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Date:	Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:44:55 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
Cc:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] core/hweight changes for v2.6.35

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 05:11:14PM -0700

> On 08/13/2010 02:59 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > 
> > but those targets still define CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEIGHT right ?  so at
> > the least, we should be wrapping the prototypes in linux/bitops.h with
> > that ...
> > 
> 
> Yes, I guess they do.

Actually, Mike's issue is valid, if I understand it correctly. From
looking at <arch/blackfin/include/asm/bitops.h>, Blackfin doesn't need
the generic software variants __sw_hweightXX at all, right?

In that case, <include/linux/bitops.h> is pulling in needlessly
unresolved symbols for arches which have their hw versions of
hweight and don't need sw variants. However, if you want to include
<asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h> and benefit from the compile-time
evaluation of the const hweight args, you're going to need to rename
the hweightXX() functions in <arch/blackfin/include/asm/bitops.h> to
__arch_hweightXX but that shouldn't be a problem I guess :).

Let me give your patch from couple of mails ago a quick spin...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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