Re: [PATCH 2/5] bitops: compile time optimization forhweight_long(CONSTANT)

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Feb 04 2010 - 10:54:17 EST


On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 04:13:52PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> hweight_long() isn't an arch primitive, only __arch_hweight{8,16,32,64}
> are.

Yeah, I'm still looking for the proper location. hweight_long() is the
generic version so do we want to do the

#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_POPCNT
static inline unsigned long hweight_long(unsigned long w)
...

#endif

thing and define a x86-specific version?

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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