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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>x86, bitops: Change bitops to be native operand size</title>
<updated>2013-07-16T22:24:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-16T22:20:14+00:00</published>
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Change the bitops operation to be naturally "long", i.e. 63 bits on
the 64-bit kernel.  Additional bugs are likely to crop up in the
future.

We already have bugs which machines with &gt; 16 TiB of memory in a
single node, as can happen if memory is interleaved.  The x86 bitop
operations take a signed index, so using an unsigned type is not an
option.

Jim Kukunas measured the effect of this patch on kernel size: it adds
2779 bytes to the allyesconfig kernel.  Some of that probably could be
elided by replacing the inline functions with macros which select the
32-bit type if the index is a 32-bit value, something like:

In that case we could also use "Jr" constraints for the 64-bit
version.

However, this would more than double the amount of code for a
relatively small gain.

Note that we can't use ilog2() for _BITOPS_LONG_SHIFT, as that causes
a recursive header inclusion problem.

The change to constant_test_bit() should both generate better code and
give correct result for negative bit indicies.  As previously written
the compiler had to generate extra code to create the proper wrong
result for negative values.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jim Kukunas &lt;james.t.kukunas@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-z61ofiwe90xeyb461o72h8ya@git.kernel.org
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Change the bitops operation to be naturally "long", i.e. 63 bits on
the 64-bit kernel.  Additional bugs are likely to crop up in the
future.

We already have bugs which machines with &gt; 16 TiB of memory in a
single node, as can happen if memory is interleaved.  The x86 bitop
operations take a signed index, so using an unsigned type is not an
option.

Jim Kukunas measured the effect of this patch on kernel size: it adds
2779 bytes to the allyesconfig kernel.  Some of that probably could be
elided by replacing the inline functions with macros which select the
32-bit type if the index is a 32-bit value, something like:

In that case we could also use "Jr" constraints for the 64-bit
version.

However, this would more than double the amount of code for a
relatively small gain.

Note that we can't use ilog2() for _BITOPS_LONG_SHIFT, as that causes
a recursive header inclusion problem.

The change to constant_test_bit() should both generate better code and
give correct result for negative bit indicies.  As previously written
the compiler had to generate extra code to create the proper wrong
result for negative values.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jim Kukunas &lt;james.t.kukunas@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-z61ofiwe90xeyb461o72h8ya@git.kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>x86: Use REP BSF unconditionally</title>
<updated>2012-09-19T15:26:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Beulich</name>
<email>JBeulich@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-18T11:16:14+00:00</published>
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Make "REP BSF" unconditional, as per the suggestion of hpa
and Linus, this removes the insane BSF_PREFIX conditional
and simplifies the logic.

Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5058741E020000780009C014@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Make "REP BSF" unconditional, as per the suggestion of hpa
and Linus, this removes the insane BSF_PREFIX conditional
and simplifies the logic.

Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5058741E020000780009C014@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86: Prefer TZCNT over BFS</title>
<updated>2012-09-13T15:44:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Beulich</name>
<email>JBeulich@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-10T11:24:43+00:00</published>
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Following a relatively recent compiler change, make use of the
fact that for non-zero input BSF and TZCNT produce the same
result, and that CPUs not knowing of TZCNT will treat the
instruction as BSF (i.e. ignore what looks like a REP prefix to
them). The assumption here is that TZCNT would never have worse
performance than BSF.

For the moment, only do this when the respective generic-CPU
option is selected (as there are no specific-CPU options
covering the CPUs supporting TZCNT), and don't do that when size
optimization was requested.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/504DEA1B020000780009A277@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Following a relatively recent compiler change, make use of the
fact that for non-zero input BSF and TZCNT produce the same
result, and that CPUs not knowing of TZCNT will treat the
instruction as BSF (i.e. ignore what looks like a REP prefix to
them). The assumption here is that TZCNT would never have worse
performance than BSF.

For the moment, only do this when the respective generic-CPU
option is selected (as there are no specific-CPU options
covering the CPUs supporting TZCNT), and don't do that when size
optimization was requested.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/504DEA1B020000780009A277@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/64: Adjust types of temporaries used by ffs()/fls()/fls64()</title>
<updated>2012-09-13T15:43:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Beulich</name>
<email>JBeulich@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-10T11:04:16+00:00</published>
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The 64-bit special cases of the former two (the thrird one is
64-bit only anyway) don't need to use "long" temporaries, as the
result will always fit in a 32-bit variable, and the functions
return plain "int". This avoids a few REX prefixes, i.e.
minimally reduces code size.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/504DE550020000780009A258@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The 64-bit special cases of the former two (the thrird one is
64-bit only anyway) don't need to use "long" temporaries, as the
result will always fit in a 32-bit variable, and the functions
return plain "int". This avoids a few REX prefixes, i.e.
minimally reduces code size.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/504DE550020000780009A258@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>x86, bitops: note on __test_and_clear_bit atomicity</title>
<updated>2012-06-25T09:38:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-24T16:24:42+00:00</published>
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__test_and_clear_bit is actually atomic with respect
to the local CPU. Add a note saying that KVM on x86
relies on this behaviour so people don't accidentaly break it.
Also warn not to rely on this in portable code.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
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__test_and_clear_bit is actually atomic with respect
to the local CPU. Add a note saying that KVM on x86
relies on this behaviour so people don't accidentaly break it.
Also warn not to rely on this in portable code.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/bitops: Move BIT_64() for a wider use</title>
<updated>2012-05-23T15:16:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>borislav.petkov@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-22T10:53:45+00:00</published>
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Needed for shifting 64-bit values on 32-bit, like MSR values,
for example.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;borislav.petkov@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Frank Arnold &lt;frank.arnold@amd.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337684026-19740-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Needed for shifting 64-bit values on 32-bit, like MSR values,
for example.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;borislav.petkov@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Frank Arnold &lt;frank.arnold@amd.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337684026-19740-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86_64, asm: Optimise fls(), ffs() and fls64()</title>
<updated>2011-12-15T23:16:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-13T14:56:54+00:00</published>
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fls(N), ffs(N) and fls64(N) can be optimised on x86_64.  Currently they use a
CMOV instruction after the BSR/BSF to set the destination register to -1 if the
value to be scanned was 0 (in which case BSR/BSF set the Z flag).

Instead, according to the AMD64 specification, we can make use of the fact that
BSR/BSF doesn't modify its output register if its input is 0.  By preloading
the output with -1 and incrementing the result, we achieve the desired result
without the need for a conditional check.

The Intel x86_64 specification, however, says that the result of BSR/BSF in
such a case is undefined.  That said, when queried, one of the Intel CPU
architects said that the behaviour on all Intel CPUs is that:

 (1) with BSRQ/BSFQ, the 64-bit destination register is written with its
     original value if the source is 0, thus, in essence, giving the effect we
     want.  And,

 (2) with BSRL/BSFL, the lower half of the 64-bit destination register is
     written with its original value if the source is 0, and the upper half is
     cleared, thus giving us the effect we want (we return a 4-byte int).

Further, it was indicated that they (Intel) are unlikely to get away with
changing the behaviour.

It might be possible to optimise the 32-bit versions of these functions, but
there's a lot more variation, and so the effective non-destructive property of
BSRL/BSRF cannot be relied on.

[ hpa: specifically, some 486 chips are known to NOT have this property. ]

I have benchmarked these functions on my Core2 Duo test machine using the
following program:

	#include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;

	#ifndef __x86_64__
	#error
	#endif

	#define PAGE_SHIFT 12

	typedef unsigned long long __u64, u64;
	typedef unsigned int __u32, u32;
	#define noinline	__attribute__((noinline))

	static __always_inline int fls64(__u64 x)
	{
		long bitpos = -1;

		asm("bsrq %1,%0"
		    : "+r" (bitpos)
		    : "rm" (x));
		return bitpos + 1;
	}

	static inline unsigned long __fls(unsigned long word)
	{
		asm("bsr %1,%0"
		    : "=r" (word)
		    : "rm" (word));
		return word;
	}
	static __always_inline int old_fls64(__u64 x)
	{
		if (x == 0)
			return 0;
		return __fls(x) + 1;
	}

	static noinline // __attribute__((const))
	int old_get_order(unsigned long size)
	{
		int order;

		size = (size - 1) &gt;&gt; (PAGE_SHIFT - 1);
		order = -1;
		do {
			size &gt;&gt;= 1;
			order++;
		} while (size);
		return order;
	}

	static inline __attribute__((const))
	int get_order_old_fls64(unsigned long size)
	{
		int order;
		size--;
		size &gt;&gt;= PAGE_SHIFT;
		order = old_fls64(size);
		return order;
	}

	static inline __attribute__((const))
	int get_order(unsigned long size)
	{
		int order;
		size--;
		size &gt;&gt;= PAGE_SHIFT;
		order = fls64(size);
		return order;
	}

	unsigned long prevent_optimise_out;

	static noinline unsigned long test_old_get_order(void)
	{
		unsigned long n, total = 0;
		long rep, loop;

		for (rep = 1000000; rep &gt; 0; rep--) {
			for (loop = 0; loop &lt;= 16384; loop += 4) {
				n = 1UL &lt;&lt; loop;
				total += old_get_order(n);
			}
		}
		return total;
	}

	static noinline unsigned long test_get_order_old_fls64(void)
	{
		unsigned long n, total = 0;
		long rep, loop;

		for (rep = 1000000; rep &gt; 0; rep--) {
			for (loop = 0; loop &lt;= 16384; loop += 4) {
				n = 1UL &lt;&lt; loop;
				total += get_order_old_fls64(n);
			}
		}
		return total;
	}

	static noinline unsigned long test_get_order(void)
	{
		unsigned long n, total = 0;
		long rep, loop;

		for (rep = 1000000; rep &gt; 0; rep--) {
			for (loop = 0; loop &lt;= 16384; loop += 4) {
				n = 1UL &lt;&lt; loop;
				total += get_order(n);
			}
		}
		return total;
	}

	int main(int argc, char **argv)
	{
		unsigned long total;

		switch (argc) {
		case 1:  total = test_old_get_order();		break;
		case 2:  total = test_get_order_old_fls64();	break;
		default: total = test_get_order();		break;
		}
		prevent_optimise_out = total;
		return 0;
	}

This allows me to test the use of the old fls64() implementation and the new
fls64() implementation and also to contrast these to the out-of-line loop-based
implementation of get_order().  The results were:

	warthog&gt;time ./get_order
	real    1m37.191s
	user    1m36.313s
	sys     0m0.861s
	warthog&gt;time ./get_order x
	real    0m16.892s
	user    0m16.586s
	sys     0m0.287s
	warthog&gt;time ./get_order x x
	real    0m7.731s
	user    0m7.727s
	sys     0m0.002s

Using the current upstream fls64() as a basis for an inlined get_order() [the
second result above] is much faster than using the current out-of-line
loop-based get_order() [the first result above].

Using my optimised inline fls64()-based get_order() [the third result above]
is even faster still.

[ hpa: changed the selection of 32 vs 64 bits to use CONFIG_X86_64
  instead of comparing BITS_PER_LONG, updated comments, rebased manually
  on top of 83d99df7c4bf x86, bitops: Move fls64.h inside __KERNEL__ ]

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111213145654.14362.39868.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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fls(N), ffs(N) and fls64(N) can be optimised on x86_64.  Currently they use a
CMOV instruction after the BSR/BSF to set the destination register to -1 if the
value to be scanned was 0 (in which case BSR/BSF set the Z flag).

Instead, according to the AMD64 specification, we can make use of the fact that
BSR/BSF doesn't modify its output register if its input is 0.  By preloading
the output with -1 and incrementing the result, we achieve the desired result
without the need for a conditional check.

The Intel x86_64 specification, however, says that the result of BSR/BSF in
such a case is undefined.  That said, when queried, one of the Intel CPU
architects said that the behaviour on all Intel CPUs is that:

 (1) with BSRQ/BSFQ, the 64-bit destination register is written with its
     original value if the source is 0, thus, in essence, giving the effect we
     want.  And,

 (2) with BSRL/BSFL, the lower half of the 64-bit destination register is
     written with its original value if the source is 0, and the upper half is
     cleared, thus giving us the effect we want (we return a 4-byte int).

Further, it was indicated that they (Intel) are unlikely to get away with
changing the behaviour.

It might be possible to optimise the 32-bit versions of these functions, but
there's a lot more variation, and so the effective non-destructive property of
BSRL/BSRF cannot be relied on.

[ hpa: specifically, some 486 chips are known to NOT have this property. ]

I have benchmarked these functions on my Core2 Duo test machine using the
following program:

	#include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;

	#ifndef __x86_64__
	#error
	#endif

	#define PAGE_SHIFT 12

	typedef unsigned long long __u64, u64;
	typedef unsigned int __u32, u32;
	#define noinline	__attribute__((noinline))

	static __always_inline int fls64(__u64 x)
	{
		long bitpos = -1;

		asm("bsrq %1,%0"
		    : "+r" (bitpos)
		    : "rm" (x));
		return bitpos + 1;
	}

	static inline unsigned long __fls(unsigned long word)
	{
		asm("bsr %1,%0"
		    : "=r" (word)
		    : "rm" (word));
		return word;
	}
	static __always_inline int old_fls64(__u64 x)
	{
		if (x == 0)
			return 0;
		return __fls(x) + 1;
	}

	static noinline // __attribute__((const))
	int old_get_order(unsigned long size)
	{
		int order;

		size = (size - 1) &gt;&gt; (PAGE_SHIFT - 1);
		order = -1;
		do {
			size &gt;&gt;= 1;
			order++;
		} while (size);
		return order;
	}

	static inline __attribute__((const))
	int get_order_old_fls64(unsigned long size)
	{
		int order;
		size--;
		size &gt;&gt;= PAGE_SHIFT;
		order = old_fls64(size);
		return order;
	}

	static inline __attribute__((const))
	int get_order(unsigned long size)
	{
		int order;
		size--;
		size &gt;&gt;= PAGE_SHIFT;
		order = fls64(size);
		return order;
	}

	unsigned long prevent_optimise_out;

	static noinline unsigned long test_old_get_order(void)
	{
		unsigned long n, total = 0;
		long rep, loop;

		for (rep = 1000000; rep &gt; 0; rep--) {
			for (loop = 0; loop &lt;= 16384; loop += 4) {
				n = 1UL &lt;&lt; loop;
				total += old_get_order(n);
			}
		}
		return total;
	}

	static noinline unsigned long test_get_order_old_fls64(void)
	{
		unsigned long n, total = 0;
		long rep, loop;

		for (rep = 1000000; rep &gt; 0; rep--) {
			for (loop = 0; loop &lt;= 16384; loop += 4) {
				n = 1UL &lt;&lt; loop;
				total += get_order_old_fls64(n);
			}
		}
		return total;
	}

	static noinline unsigned long test_get_order(void)
	{
		unsigned long n, total = 0;
		long rep, loop;

		for (rep = 1000000; rep &gt; 0; rep--) {
			for (loop = 0; loop &lt;= 16384; loop += 4) {
				n = 1UL &lt;&lt; loop;
				total += get_order(n);
			}
		}
		return total;
	}

	int main(int argc, char **argv)
	{
		unsigned long total;

		switch (argc) {
		case 1:  total = test_old_get_order();		break;
		case 2:  total = test_get_order_old_fls64();	break;
		default: total = test_get_order();		break;
		}
		prevent_optimise_out = total;
		return 0;
	}

This allows me to test the use of the old fls64() implementation and the new
fls64() implementation and also to contrast these to the out-of-line loop-based
implementation of get_order().  The results were:

	warthog&gt;time ./get_order
	real    1m37.191s
	user    1m36.313s
	sys     0m0.861s
	warthog&gt;time ./get_order x
	real    0m16.892s
	user    0m16.586s
	sys     0m0.287s
	warthog&gt;time ./get_order x x
	real    0m7.731s
	user    0m7.727s
	sys     0m0.002s

Using the current upstream fls64() as a basis for an inlined get_order() [the
second result above] is much faster than using the current out-of-line
loop-based get_order() [the first result above].

Using my optimised inline fls64()-based get_order() [the third result above]
is even faster still.

[ hpa: changed the selection of 32 vs 64 bits to use CONFIG_X86_64
  instead of comparing BITS_PER_LONG, updated comments, rebased manually
  on top of 83d99df7c4bf x86, bitops: Move fls64.h inside __KERNEL__ ]

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111213145654.14362.39868.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86, bitops: Move fls64.h inside __KERNEL__</title>
<updated>2011-12-15T23:04:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-15T22:55:53+00:00</published>
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We would include &lt;asm-generic/bitops/fls64.h&gt; even without __KERNEL__,
but that doesn't make sense, as:

1. That file provides fls64(), but the corresponding function fls() is
   not exported to user space.
2. The implementation of fls64.h uses kernel-only symbols.
3. fls64.h is not exported to user space.

This appears to have been a bug introduced in checkin:

d57594c203b1 bitops: use __fls for fls64 on 64-bit archs

Cc: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum &lt;heukelum@mailshack.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4EEA77E1.6050009@zytor.com
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We would include &lt;asm-generic/bitops/fls64.h&gt; even without __KERNEL__,
but that doesn't make sense, as:

1. That file provides fls64(), but the corresponding function fls() is
   not exported to user space.
2. The implementation of fls64.h uses kernel-only symbols.
3. fls64.h is not exported to user space.

This appears to have been a bug introduced in checkin:

d57594c203b1 bitops: use __fls for fls64 on 64-bit archs

Cc: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum &lt;heukelum@mailshack.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4EEA77E1.6050009@zytor.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>asm-generic: add another generic ext2 atomic bitops</title>
<updated>2011-07-26T23:49:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Akinobu Mita</name>
<email>akinobu.mita@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-26T23:09:04+00:00</published>
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The majority of architectures implement ext2 atomic bitops as
test_and_{set,clear}_bit() without spinlock.

This adds this type of generic implementation in ext2-atomic-setbit.h and
use it wherever possible.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The majority of architectures implement ext2 atomic bitops as
test_and_{set,clear}_bit() without spinlock.

This adds this type of generic implementation in ext2-atomic-setbit.h and
use it wherever possible.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bitops: remove minix bitops from asm/bitops.h</title>
<updated>2011-03-24T02:46:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Akinobu Mita</name>
<email>akinobu.mita@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-23T23:42:16+00:00</published>
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minix bit operations are only used by minix filesystem and useless by
other modules.  Because byte order of inode and block bitmaps is different
on each architecture like below:

m68k:
	big-endian 16bit indexed bitmaps

h8300, microblaze, s390, sparc, m68knommu:
	big-endian 32 or 64bit indexed bitmaps

m32r, mips, sh, xtensa:
	big-endian 32 or 64bit indexed bitmaps for big-endian mode
	little-endian bitmaps for little-endian mode

Others:
	little-endian bitmaps

In order to move minix bit operations from asm/bitops.h to architecture
independent code in minix filesystem, this provides two config options.

CONFIG_MINIX_FS_BIG_ENDIAN_16BIT_INDEXED is only selected by m68k.
CONFIG_MINIX_FS_NATIVE_ENDIAN is selected by the architectures which use
native byte order bitmaps (h8300, microblaze, s390, sparc, m68knommu,
m32r, mips, sh, xtensa).  The architectures which always use little-endian
bitmaps do not select these options.

Finally, we can remove minix bit operations from asm/bitops.h for all
architectures.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@uclinux.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Roman Zippel &lt;zippel@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Andreas Schwab &lt;schwab@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Hirokazu Takata &lt;takata@linux-m32r.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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minix bit operations are only used by minix filesystem and useless by
other modules.  Because byte order of inode and block bitmaps is different
on each architecture like below:

m68k:
	big-endian 16bit indexed bitmaps

h8300, microblaze, s390, sparc, m68knommu:
	big-endian 32 or 64bit indexed bitmaps

m32r, mips, sh, xtensa:
	big-endian 32 or 64bit indexed bitmaps for big-endian mode
	little-endian bitmaps for little-endian mode

Others:
	little-endian bitmaps

In order to move minix bit operations from asm/bitops.h to architecture
independent code in minix filesystem, this provides two config options.

CONFIG_MINIX_FS_BIG_ENDIAN_16BIT_INDEXED is only selected by m68k.
CONFIG_MINIX_FS_NATIVE_ENDIAN is selected by the architectures which use
native byte order bitmaps (h8300, microblaze, s390, sparc, m68knommu,
m32r, mips, sh, xtensa).  The architectures which always use little-endian
bitmaps do not select these options.

Finally, we can remove minix bit operations from asm/bitops.h for all
architectures.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@uclinux.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Roman Zippel &lt;zippel@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Andreas Schwab &lt;schwab@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Hirokazu Takata &lt;takata@linux-m32r.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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