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DateFri, 9 Apr 2004 11:54:27 -0700
FromPaul Jackson <>
SubjectRe: [Patch 17/23] mask v2 = [6/7] nodemask_t_ia64_changes
> I've reduced this to a pair of bitmap.h operators:
> 
> > #define find_next_bit_in_bitmap(src, nbits, n)			\
> > 	({ int i = (n); while(i < (nbits) && !test_bit(i, (src))) i++; i; })
> > 
> > #define find_first_bit_in_bitmap(src, nbits)			\
> > 	find_next_bit_in_bitmap((src), (nbits), 0)
> 
> ...
> 
> My next mask patchset will have these.

Wrong.  My next patch set, released 8 April, did not have these.

A subsequent discussion with Nick Piggin convinced me that the
better path was to take find_next_bit() out of line, which I did
for ia64 (other arch's might also want to do this).

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