Re: [PATCH v3] x86: merge the simple bitops and move them tobitops.h

[Ingo Molnar]

* Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> x86: merge the simple bitops and move them to bitops.h.
> 
> Some of those can be written in such a way that the same inline 
> assembly can be used to generate both 32 bit and 64 bit code.
> 
> For ffs and fls, x86_64 unconditionally used the cmov instruction and 
> i386 unconditionally used a conditional branch over a mov instruction. 
> In the current patch I chose to select the version based on the 
> availability of the cmov instruction instead. A small detail here is 
> that x86_64 did not previously set CONFIG_X86_CMOV=y.
> 
> Improved comments for ffs, ffz, fls and variations.

thanks Alexander, applied.

	Ingo
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