Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] kenrel.h: add ALIGN_OF_LAST_BIT()

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On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:21:19 +0100, Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Get the biggest 2**y that x % (2**y) == 0 for the align value.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/kernel.h |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 5113462..2c439dc 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@
 #define PTR_ALIGN(p, a)		((typeof(p))ALIGN((unsigned long)(p), (a)))
 #define IS_ALIGNED(x, a)		(((x) & ((typeof(x))(a) - 1)) == 0)
+#define ALIGN_OF_LAST_BIT(x)	((((x)^((x) - 1))>>1) + 1)

Wouldn't ALIGNMENT() be less confusing? After all, that's what this macro is
calculating, right? Alignment of given address.

+
 #define ARRAY_SIZE(arr) (sizeof(arr) / sizeof((arr)[0]) + __must_be_array(arr))
/*


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