[PATCH] bitops: generic fls()

This patch introduces the C-language equivalent of the function: int fls(int
x);

In include/asm-generic/bitops/fls.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, 41 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/bitops/fls.h b/include/asm-generic/bitops/fls.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..850859bc5069
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/asm-generic/bitops/fls.h
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_BITOPS_FLS_H_
+#define _ASM_GENERIC_BITOPS_FLS_H_
+
+/**
+ * fls - find last (most-significant) bit set
+ * @x: the word to search
+ *
+ * This is defined the same way as ffs.
+ * Note fls(0) = 0, fls(1) = 1, fls(0x80000000) = 32.
+ */
+
+static inline int fls(int x)
+{
+        int r = 32;
+
+        if (!x)
+                return 0;
+        if (!(x & 0xffff0000u)) {
+                x <<= 16;
+                r -= 16;
+        }
+        if (!(x & 0xff000000u)) {
+                x <<= 8;
+                r -= 8;
+        }
+        if (!(x & 0xf0000000u)) {
+                x <<= 4;
+                r -= 4;
+        }
+        if (!(x & 0xc0000000u)) {
+                x <<= 2;
+                r -= 2;
+        }
+        if (!(x & 0x80000000u)) {
+                x <<= 1;
+                r -= 1;
+        }
+        return r;
+}
+
+#endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_BITOPS_FLS_H_ */