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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
To: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>,
	Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: shli@fb.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bitops.h: use BITS_PER_LONG to simplify BITS_TO_LONGS
Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 07:45:12 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tmfq6fr.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170502132823.GB7654@WeideMacBook-Pro.local>

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On Tue, May 02 2017, Wei Yang wrote:

> Hi, masters
>
> Not sure this one is acceptable?

You'd have better luck getting a response if you post things like this
to akpm - he tends to collect miscellaneous bits and pieces.
I don't think the patch makes more that a tiny improvement and I
wouldn't bother with it, but maybe Andrew will.

NeilBrown

>
> On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 08:37:43AM +0800, Wei Yang wrote:
>>The second parameter is the number of bits for type "long", which is
>>already defined in header file.
>>
>>This patch replace the calculation with macro to make it more readable.
>>
>>Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
>>---
>> include/linux/bitops.h | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>>diff --git a/include/linux/bitops.h b/include/linux/bitops.h
>>index a83c822c35c2..923fe72d31e3 100644
>>--- a/include/linux/bitops.h
>>+++ b/include/linux/bitops.h
>>@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
>> #define BIT_ULL_MASK(nr)	(1ULL << ((nr) % BITS_PER_LONG_LONG))
>> #define BIT_ULL_WORD(nr)	((nr) / BITS_PER_LONG_LONG)
>> #define BITS_PER_BYTE		8
>>-#define BITS_TO_LONGS(nr)	DIV_ROUND_UP(nr, BITS_PER_BYTE * sizeof(long))
>>+#define BITS_TO_LONGS(nr)	DIV_ROUND_UP(nr, BITS_PER_LONG)
>> #endif
>> 
>> /*
>>-- 
>>2.11.0
>
> -- 
> Wei Yang
> Help you, Help me

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-02 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-18  0:37 Wei Yang
2017-05-02 13:28 ` Wei Yang
2017-05-02 21:45   ` NeilBrown [this message]
2017-05-03  1:06     ` Wei Yang

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