On 18 December 2017 at 17:24, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 16:05 +0100, Crt Mori wrote:
>> There is no option to perform 64bit integer sqrt on 32bit platform.
>> Added stronger typed int_sqrt64 enables the 64bit calculations to
>> be performed on 32bit platforms. Although int_sqrt() is a rough
>> approximation, the same algorithm is used in int_sqrt64() as good
>> enough on 32bit platform.
> []
>> diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
> []
>> @@ -459,6 +459,7 @@ extern int kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr);
>> extern int func_ptr_is_kernel_text(void *ptr);
>>
>> unsigned long int_sqrt(unsigned long);
>> +u64 int_sqrt64(u64 x);
>>
>> extern void bust_spinlocks(int yes);
>> extern int oops_in_progress; /* If set, an oops, panic(), BUG() or die() is in progress */
>> diff --git a/lib/int_sqrt.c b/lib/int_sqrt.c
> []
>> @@ -36,3 +36,29 @@ unsigned long int_sqrt(unsigned long x)
>> return y;
>> }
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(int_sqrt);
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * int_sqrt64 - strongly typed int_sqrt function
>> + * @x: 64bit integer of which to calculate the sqrt
>> + */
>> +u64 int_sqrt64(u64 x)
>> +{
>> + u64 b, m, y = 0;
>> +
>> + if (x <= 1)
>> + return x;
>> +
>> + m = 1ULL << (64 - 2);
>> + while (m != 0) {
>> + b = y + m;
>> + y >>= 1;
>> +
>> + if (x >= b) {
>> + x -= b;
>> + y += m;
>> + }
>> + m >>= 2;
>> + }
>> + return y;
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(int_sqrt64);
>
> int_sqrt is now optimized with __fls
>
> Because u64 is unsigned long on 64 bit arches, this
> could probably be optimized for 64 bit distributions
> with something like:
>
> #if BITS_PER_LONG != 64
> #define int_sqrt64 _int_sqrt64
> u64 _int_sqrt64(u64 x);
> #else
> #define int_sqrt64(x) int_sqrt
> #endif
>
> ...
>
> #if BITS_PER_LONG != 64
> u64 _int_sqrt64(u64 x)
> { etc.. }
> #endif
>
Thanks for the tip. I will respin with this change so that 64 bit
arches use the optimized int_sqrt from above.
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