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| author | Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2013-11-12 15:09:48 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-11-13 12:09:22 +0900 |
| commit | ec778edf97dcaa517e5b0eea6f1a9ba9d476e4a8 (patch) | |
| tree | a9b092d8a94ada73d76da694b38d9af290177f5f /include | |
| parent | c962f7b95c98d2b42019cc9cb074886d177ee3a3 (diff) | |
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bitops/find: clarify and extend documentation
Add return value documentation and clarify the units of the @size
parameter.
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/bitops/find.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/bitops/find.h b/include/asm-generic/bitops/find.h index 71c778033f57..998d4d544f18 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/bitops/find.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/bitops/find.h @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ * @addr: The address to base the search on * @offset: The bitnumber to start searching at * @size: The bitmap size in bits + * + * Returns the bit number for the next set bit + * If no bits are set, returns @size. */ extern unsigned long find_next_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned long size, unsigned long offset); @@ -18,6 +21,9 @@ extern unsigned long find_next_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned long * @addr: The address to base the search on * @offset: The bitnumber to start searching at * @size: The bitmap size in bits + * + * Returns the bit number of the next zero bit + * If no bits are zero, returns @size. */ extern unsigned long find_next_zero_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned long size, unsigned long offset); @@ -28,9 +34,10 @@ extern unsigned long find_next_zero_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned /** * find_first_bit - find the first set bit in a memory region * @addr: The address to start the search at - * @size: The maximum size to search + * @size: The maximum number of bits to search * * Returns the bit number of the first set bit. + * If no bits are set, returns @size. */ extern unsigned long find_first_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned long size); @@ -38,9 +45,10 @@ extern unsigned long find_first_bit(const unsigned long *addr, /** * find_first_zero_bit - find the first cleared bit in a memory region * @addr: The address to start the search at - * @size: The maximum size to search + * @size: The maximum number of bits to search * * Returns the bit number of the first cleared bit. + * If no bits are zero, returns @size. */ extern unsigned long find_first_zero_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned long size); |