Inside there was something interesting. My Large-File-Summit stuff
does need similar too -- although only in printk() support, and only
when the BITS_PER_LONG is under 64 (all ia32 systems, of course).
Should we integrate something alike into the general lib/ directory
in the kernel ?
For most of the gcc generated cases we definitely don't want to use
this -- when we are doing some filesystem internal code, for example.
(We don't want __divdi3, __moddi3 et.al. with those gcc library calls!
Rather we want carefully control where the uses occur.)
/Matti Aarnio
....
> +/*
> + * accurate 64-bit division, expanded to 32-bit divisions. Not terribly
> + * optimized but we need it at boot time only anyway.
> + *
> + * result == a / b
> + * == (a1 + a2*(2^32)) / b
> + * == a1/b + a2*(2^32/b)
> + * == a1/b + a2*((2^32-1)/b) + a2/b + (a2*((2^32-1) % b))/b
> + * ^---- (this multiplication can overflow)
> + */
> +
> +unsigned long long div64 (unsigned long long a, unsigned long long b)
> +{
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