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2012-07-30string: introduce memweight()Akinobu Mita1-0/+38
memweight() is the function that counts the total number of bits set in memory area. Unlike bitmap_weight(), memweight() takes pointer and size in bytes to specify a memory area which does not need to be aligned to long-word boundary. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: rename `w' to `ret'] Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net> Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>