[PATCH] bitops: generic hweight{64,32,16,8}()

This patch introduces the C-language equivalents of the functions below:

unsigned int hweight32(unsigned int w);
unsigned int hweight16(unsigned int w);
unsigned int hweight8(unsigned int w);
unsigned long hweight64(__u64 w);

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

This code largely copied from: include/linux/bitops.h

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h b/include/asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8be6f17d6a5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_BITOPS_HWEIGHT_H_
+#define _ASM_GENERIC_BITOPS_HWEIGHT_H_
+
+extern unsigned int hweight32(unsigned int w);
+extern unsigned int hweight16(unsigned int w);
+extern unsigned int hweight8(unsigned int w);
+extern unsigned long hweight64(__u64 w);
+
+#endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_BITOPS_HWEIGHT_H_ */