The patch titled Subject: bitops: simplify get_count_order_long() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is bitops-simplify-get_count_order_long.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/bitops-simplify-get_count_order_long.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/bitops-simplify-get_count_order_long.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: bitops: simplify get_count_order_long() These two cases could be unified into one. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200807085837.11697-2-richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/bitops.h | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/bitops.h~bitops-simplify-get_count_order_long +++ a/include/linux/bitops.h @@ -206,10 +206,7 @@ static inline int get_count_order_long(u { if (l == 0UL) return -1; - else if (l & (l - 1UL)) - return (int)fls_long(l); - else - return (int)fls_long(l) - 1; + return (int)fls_long(--l); } /** _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-mmap-rename-__vma_unlink_common-to-__vma_unlink.patch mm-mmap-leverage-vma_rb_erase_ignore-to-implement-vma_rb_erase.patch mm-page_reporting-drop-stale-list-head-check-in-page_reporting_cycle.patch bitops-simplify-get_count_order_long.patch bitops-use-the-same-mechanism-for-get_count_order.patch