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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/asm-generic/bitops/find.h, branch v2.6.29</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>x86, generic: optimize find_next_(zero_)bit for small constant-size bitmaps</title>
<updated>2008-04-26T17:21:16+00:00</updated>
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<name>Alexander van Heukelum</name>
<email>heukelum@mailshack.com</email>
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<published>2008-03-11T15:17:19+00:00</published>
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This moves an optimization for searching constant-sized small
bitmaps form x86_64-specific to generic code.

On an i386 defconfig (the x86#testing one), the size of vmlinux hardly
changes with this applied. I have observed only four places where this
optimization avoids a call into find_next_bit:

In the functions return_unused_surplus_pages, alloc_fresh_huge_page,
and adjust_pool_surplus, this patch avoids a call for a 1-bit bitmap.
In __next_cpu a call is avoided for a 32-bit bitmap. That's it.

On x86_64, 52 locations are optimized with a minimal increase in
code size:

Current #testing defconfig:
	146 x bsf, 27 x find_next_*bit
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   5392637  846592  724424 6963653  6a41c5 vmlinux

After removing the x86_64 specific optimization for find_next_*bit:
	94 x bsf, 79 x find_next_*bit
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   5392358  846592  724424 6963374  6a40ae vmlinux

After this patch (making the optimization generic):
	146 x bsf, 27 x find_next_*bit
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   5392396  846592  724424 6963412  6a40d4 vmlinux

[ tglx@linutronix.de: build fixes ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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This moves an optimization for searching constant-sized small
bitmaps form x86_64-specific to generic code.

On an i386 defconfig (the x86#testing one), the size of vmlinux hardly
changes with this applied. I have observed only four places where this
optimization avoids a call into find_next_bit:

In the functions return_unused_surplus_pages, alloc_fresh_huge_page,
and adjust_pool_surplus, this patch avoids a call for a 1-bit bitmap.
In __next_cpu a call is avoided for a 32-bit bitmap. That's it.

On x86_64, 52 locations are optimized with a minimal increase in
code size:

Current #testing defconfig:
	146 x bsf, 27 x find_next_*bit
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   5392637  846592  724424 6963653  6a41c5 vmlinux

After removing the x86_64 specific optimization for find_next_*bit:
	94 x bsf, 79 x find_next_*bit
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   5392358  846592  724424 6963374  6a40ae vmlinux

After this patch (making the optimization generic):
	146 x bsf, 27 x find_next_*bit
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   5392396  846592  724424 6963412  6a40d4 vmlinux

[ tglx@linutronix.de: build fixes ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] bitops: generic find_{next,first}{,_zero}_bit()</title>
<updated>2006-03-26T16:57:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Akinobu Mita</name>
<email>mita@miraclelinux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-03-26T09:39:11+00:00</published>
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This patch introduces the C-language equivalents of the functions below:

unsigned logn find_next_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned long size,
                            unsigned long offset);
unsigned long find_next_zero_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned long size,
                                 unsigned long offset);
unsigned long find_first_zero_bit(const unsigned long *addr,
                                  unsigned long size);
unsigned long find_first_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned long size);

In include/asm-generic/bitops/find.h

This code largely copied from: arch/powerpc/lib/bitops.c

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;mita@miraclelinux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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This patch introduces the C-language equivalents of the functions below:

unsigned logn find_next_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned long size,
                            unsigned long offset);
unsigned long find_next_zero_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned long size,
                                 unsigned long offset);
unsigned long find_first_zero_bit(const unsigned long *addr,
                                  unsigned long size);
unsigned long find_first_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned long size);

In include/asm-generic/bitops/find.h

This code largely copied from: arch/powerpc/lib/bitops.c

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;mita@miraclelinux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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