This patch series introduces little-endian bit operations in asm/bitops.h
for all architectures and converts all ext2 non-atomic and minix bit
operations to use little-endian bit operations. It enables us to remove
ext2 non-atomic and minix bit operations from asm/bitops.h. The reason
they should be removed from asm/bitops.h is as follows:
For ext2 non-atomic bit operations, they are used for little-endian byte
order bitmap access by some filesystems and modules. But using ext2_*()
functions on a module other than ext2 filesystem makes some feel strange.
For minix bit operations, they are only used by minix filesystem and are
useless by other modules. Because byte order of inode and block bitmap is
This patch:
In order to make the forthcoming changes smaller, this merges macro
definisions in asm-generic/bitops/le.h for big-endian and little-endian as
much as possible.
This also removes unused BITOP_WORD macro.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This function is used by the ext4 multi block allocator patches.
Also add generic_find_next_le_bit
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This patch introduces the C-language equivalents of the functions below:
int ext2_set_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr);
int ext2_clear_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr);
int ext2_test_bit(int nr, const volatile unsigned long *addr);
unsigned long ext2_find_first_zero_bit(const unsigned long *addr,
unsigned long size);
unsinged long ext2_find_next_zero_bit(const unsigned long *addr,
unsigned long size);
In include/asm-generic/bitops/ext2-non-atomic.h
This code largely copied from:
include/asm-powerpc/bitops.h
include/asm-parisc/bitops.h
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
