The patch titled
Subject: lib/bitmap.c: remove wrong documentation
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
lib-bitmapc-remove-wrong-documentation.patch
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http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/lib-bitmapc-remove-wrong-documentation.patch
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http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/lib-bitmapc-remove-wrong-documentation.patch
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From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: lib/bitmap.c: remove wrong documentation
This promise is violated in a number of places, e.g. already in the
second function below this paragraph. Since I don't think anybody relies
on this being true, and since actually honouring it would hurt performance
and code size in various places, just remove the paragraph.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180818131623.8755-2-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yury Norov <ynorov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/bitmap.c | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
--- a/lib/bitmap.c~lib-bitmapc-remove-wrong-documentation
+++ a/lib/bitmap.c
@@ -36,11 +36,6 @@
* carefully filter out these unused bits from impacting their
* results.
*
- * These operations actually hold to a slightly stronger rule:
- * if you don't input any bitmaps to these ops that have some
- * unused bits set, then they won't output any set unused bits
- * in output bitmaps.
- *
* The byte ordering of bitmaps is more natural on little
* endian architectures. See the big-endian headers
* include/asm-ppc64/bitops.h and include/asm-s390/bitops.h
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
lib-bitmapc-remove-wrong-documentation.patch
linux-bitmaph-handle-constant-zero-size-bitmaps-correctly.patch
linux-bitmaph-remove-redundant-uses-of-small_const_nbits.patch
linux-bitmaph-fix-type-of-nbits-in-bitmap_shift_right.patch
linux-bitmaph-relax-comment-on-compile-time-constant-nbits.patch
lib-bitmapc-fix-remaining-space-computation-in-bitmap_print_to_pagebuf.patch
lib-bitmapc-simplify-bitmap_print_to_pagebuf.patch
