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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix roundup_pow_of_two(1)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 13:49:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070604114900.GS5500@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705172356.57620.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:56:56PM +0200, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> Fix roundup_pow_of_two(1)
> 
> 1 is a power of two, therefore roundup_pow_of_two(1) should return 1. It does
> in case the argument is a variable but in case it's a constant it behaves
> wrong and returns 0. Probably nobody ever did it so this was never noticed.

I'm not getting the problem.
2^0 = 1

> Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
> 
> ---
> commit 01ceeffac83011f0b5021013cc4abd1c4f291df5
> tree 7da59df51617d7cebd55e4361019181645a17e10
> parent ab35916f807eb4f2019a208e96cb0bddbb91dfc3
> author Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Thu, 17 May 2007 23:43:54 +0200
> committer Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Thu, 17 May 2007 23:43:54 +0200
> 
>  include/linux/log2.h |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/log2.h b/include/linux/log2.h
> index 57e641e..1b8a2c1 100644
> --- a/include/linux/log2.h
> +++ b/include/linux/log2.h
> @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ unsigned long __roundup_pow_of_two(unsigned long n)
>  #define roundup_pow_of_two(n)			\
>  (						\
>  	__builtin_constant_p(n) ? (		\
> -		(n == 1) ? 0 :			\
> +		(n == 1) ? 1 :			\
>  		(1UL << (ilog2((n) - 1) + 1))	\
>  				   ) :		\
>  	__roundup_pow_of_two(n)			\

cu
Adrian

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-04 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-17 21:56 [PATCH] Fix roundup_pow_of_two(1) Rolf Eike Beer
2007-06-04 11:49 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-06-04 12:13   ` Rolf Eike Beer
2007-06-04 13:17     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-04 12:33   ` Jiri Kosina

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