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Micro-optimize the bitops code some more, similar to commits:fdb6649ab7("x86/asm/bitops: Use __builtin_ctzl() to evaluate constant expressions")2fcff790dc("powerpc: Use builtin functions for fls()/__fls()/fls64()") From a recent discussion, I noticed that x86 is lacking an optimization that appears in arch/powerpc/include/asm/bitops.h related to constant folding. If you add a BUILD_BUG_ON(__builtin_constant_p(param)) to these functions, you'll find that there were cases where the use of inline asm pessimized the compiler's ability to perform constant folding resulting in runtime calculation of a value that could have been computed at compile time. Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230828-x86_fls-v1-1-e6a31b9f79c3@google.com
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.