string: introduce memweight()
authorAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:40:55 +0000 (14:40 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:25:16 +0000 (17:25 -0700)
commit639b9e34f15e4b2c30068a4e4485586af0cdf709
treea84e3277a55757dac4630e3d20bc353b195c3c10
parentf7f95056779eb69c5fc3ac30e5cb6fd28bdbba43
string: introduce memweight()

memweight() is the function that counts the total number of bits set in
memory area.  Unlike bitmap_weight(), memweight() takes pointer and size
in bytes to specify a memory area which does not need to be aligned to
long-word boundary.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rename `w' to `ret']
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/string.h
lib/Makefile
lib/memweight.c [new file with mode: 0644]