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SubjectRe: [patch] [sched] bitmap cleanup, speedup, 2.5.3-pre5
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Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201281744070.9796-100000@localhost.localdomain>
By author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> +static __inline__ unsigned long __ffs(unsigned long word)
> +{
> + __asm__("bsfl %1,%0"
> + :"=r" (word)
> + :"r" (word));
> return word;
> }
>

Should typically be:

static __inline__ unsigned long __ffs(unsigned long word)
{
__asm__("bsfl %1,%0"
:"=r" (word)
:"rm" (word));
return word;
}

There is no reason to force the compiler to put the operand in a
register.

-hpa
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