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Date:   Sat, 30 May 2020 21:22:25 +0000
From:   Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
To:     Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com,
        christian.brauner@...ntu.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bitops: use the same mechanism for get_count_order[_long]

Andrew,

Would you mind picking up this one? The test module doesn't show any warning
after this on applied.

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 09:59:58PM +0000, Wei Yang wrote:
>These two functions share the same logic.
>
>Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
>---
> include/linux/bitops.h | 8 +++-----
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/include/linux/bitops.h b/include/linux/bitops.h
>index 5b5609e81a84..80703ef27aee 100644
>--- a/include/linux/bitops.h
>+++ b/include/linux/bitops.h
>@@ -188,12 +188,10 @@ static inline unsigned fls_long(unsigned long l)
> 
> static inline int get_count_order(unsigned int count)
> {
>-	int order;
>+	if (count == 0)
>+		return -1;
> 
>-	order = fls(count) - 1;
>-	if (count & (count - 1))
>-		order++;
>-	return order;
>+	return fls(--count);
> }
> 
> /**
>-- 
>2.23.0

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Wei Yang
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