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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Cc: wli@holomorphy.com, colpatch@us.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mbligh@aracnet.com, akpm@osdl.org,
	haveblue@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nodemask_t x86_64 changes [5/7]
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 21:14:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040328211415.6754b296.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4865.1080536926@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>

> how you represent an incomplete bit map

See the follow files for the best available documentation of how bitmaps
are layed out.  The representation is little-endian friendly, so the
big-endian arch's had to struggle with it the most, and ended up
documenting it the best.

	include/asm-ppc64/bitops.h
	include/asm-s390/bitops.h

-- 
                          I won't rest till it's the best ...
                          Programmer, Linux Scalability
                          Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.650.933.1373

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-29  5:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-18 23:04 [PATCH] nodemask_t x86_64 changes [5/7] Matthew Dobson
2004-03-23  7:08 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-23 10:13   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-23 21:36     ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-24  2:03       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-24  4:11         ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-24  4:37           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-26  5:06           ` Keith Owens
2004-03-26  7:14             ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-29  5:08               ` Keith Owens
2004-03-29  5:14                 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2004-03-29  5:38                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-26 11:57             ` William Lee Irwin III

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