xref: /linux/lib/memweight.c (revision b6ebbac51bedf9e98e837688bc838f400196da5e)
1 #include <linux/export.h>
2 #include <linux/bug.h>
3 #include <linux/bitmap.h>
4 
5 /**
6  * memweight - count the total number of bits set in memory area
7  * @ptr: pointer to the start of the area
8  * @bytes: the size of the area
9  */
10 size_t memweight(const void *ptr, size_t bytes)
11 {
12 	size_t ret = 0;
13 	size_t longs;
14 	const unsigned char *bitmap = ptr;
15 
16 	for (; bytes > 0 && ((unsigned long)bitmap) % sizeof(long);
17 			bytes--, bitmap++)
18 		ret += hweight8(*bitmap);
19 
20 	longs = bytes / sizeof(long);
21 	if (longs) {
22 		BUG_ON(longs >= INT_MAX / BITS_PER_LONG);
23 		ret += bitmap_weight((unsigned long *)bitmap,
24 				longs * BITS_PER_LONG);
25 		bytes -= longs * sizeof(long);
26 		bitmap += longs * sizeof(long);
27 	}
28 	/*
29 	 * The reason that this last loop is distinct from the preceding
30 	 * bitmap_weight() call is to compute 1-bits in the last region smaller
31 	 * than sizeof(long) properly on big-endian systems.
32 	 */
33 	for (; bytes > 0; bytes--, bitmap++)
34 		ret += hweight8(*bitmap);
35 
36 	return ret;
37 }
38 EXPORT_SYMBOL(memweight);
39