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    string: introduce memweight() · 639b9e34
    Akinobu Mita authored
    
    
    memweight() is the function that counts the total number of bits set in
    memory area.  Unlike bitmap_weight(), memweight() takes pointer and size
    in bytes to specify a memory area which does not need to be aligned to
    long-word boundary.
    
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: rename `w' to `ret']
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
    Cc: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net>
    Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
    Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
    Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
    Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
    Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
    Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
    Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
    Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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