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.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <[email protected]>
Cc: Anders Larsen <[email protected]>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <[email protected]>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
---

v2: simplify memweight(), adviced by Jan Kara

 include/linux/string.h |    3 +++
 lib/string.c           |   32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index e033564..ffe0442 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -145,4 +145,7 @@ static inline bool strstarts(const char *str, const char 
*prefix)
        return strncmp(str, prefix, strlen(prefix)) == 0;
 }
 #endif
+
+extern size_t memweight(const void *ptr, size_t bytes);
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_STRING_H_ */
diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index e5878de..bf4d5a8 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include <linux/export.h>
 #include <linux/bug.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/bitmap.h>
 
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRNICMP
 /**
@@ -824,3 +825,34 @@ void *memchr_inv(const void *start, int c, size_t bytes)
        return check_bytes8(start, value, bytes % 8);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(memchr_inv);
+
+/**
+ * memweight - count the total number of bits set in memory area
+ * @ptr: pointer to the start of the area
+ * @bytes: the size of the area
+ */
+size_t memweight(const void *ptr, size_t bytes)
+{
+       size_t w = 0;
+       size_t longs;
+       const unsigned char *bitmap = ptr;
+
+       for (; bytes > 0 && ((unsigned long)bitmap) % sizeof(long);
+                       bytes--, bitmap++)
+               w += hweight8(*bitmap);
+
+       longs = bytes / sizeof(long);
+       if (longs) {
+               BUG_ON(longs >= INT_MAX / BITS_PER_LONG);
+               w += bitmap_weight((unsigned long *)bitmap,
+                               longs * BITS_PER_LONG);
+               bytes -= longs * sizeof(long);
+               bitmap += longs * sizeof(long);
+       }
+
+       for (; bytes > 0; bytes--, bitmap++)
+               w += hweight8(*bitmap);
+
+       return w;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(memweight);
-- 
1.7.7.6

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