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authorAndreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>2010-08-30 15:04:01 -0400
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-11-15 13:27:04 -0500
commit7919a57bc608140aa8614c19eac40c6916fb61d2 (patch)
tree0813ff8983a937eae8636808167bc59aa0e80c34 /include/linux
parente4b3fdb80021bc0a3239bfc2a873a6d7c6ac52a1 (diff)
bitops: Provide generic sign_extend32 function
This patch moves code out from wireless drivers where two different functions are defined in three code locations for the same purpose and provides a common function to sign extend a 32-bit value. Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/bitops.h11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/bitops.h b/include/linux/bitops.h
index 827cc95711ef..2184c6b97aeb 100644
--- a/include/linux/bitops.h
+++ b/include/linux/bitops.h
@@ -109,6 +109,17 @@ static inline __u8 ror8(__u8 word, unsigned int shift)
109 return (word >> shift) | (word << (8 - shift)); 109 return (word >> shift) | (word << (8 - shift));
110} 110}
111 111
112/**
113 * sign_extend32 - sign extend a 32-bit value using specified bit as sign-bit
114 * @value: value to sign extend
115 * @index: 0 based bit index (0<=index<32) to sign bit
116 */
117static inline __s32 sign_extend32(__u32 value, int index)
118{
119 __u8 shift = 31 - index;
120 return (__s32)(value << shift) >> shift;
121}
122
112static inline unsigned fls_long(unsigned long l) 123static inline unsigned fls_long(unsigned long l)
113{ 124{
114 if (sizeof(l) == 4) 125 if (sizeof(l) == 4)