Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] linux/log2.h: Add roundup/rounddown_pow_two64() family of functions

Leon Romanovsky
2019-11-26T12:51:44Z

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 10:19:39AM +0100, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> Some users need to make sure their rounding function accepts and returns
> 64bit long variables regardless of the architecture. Sadly
> roundup/rounddown_pow_two() takes and returns unsigned longs. Create a
> new generic 64bit variant of the function and cleanup rougue custom
> implementations.

Is it possible to create general roundup/rounddown_pow_two() which will
work correctly for any type of variables, instead of creating special
variant for every type?

Thanks