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authorAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>2019-05-14 15:43:05 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-05-14 19:52:49 -0700
commit2c64e9cb0b6b858901e9a386860d7d929d1cbaeb (patch)
tree749da0ef8f5d478680a523c877fb0e16fc18409c /lib/math/gcd.c
parentb5c56e0cdd62979dd538e5363b06be5bdf735a09 (diff)
downloadlinux-2c64e9cb0b6b858901e9a386860d7d929d1cbaeb.tar.gz
lib: Move mathematic helpers to separate folder
For better maintenance and expansion move the mathematic helpers to the
separate folder.

No functional change intended.

Note, the int_sqrt() is not used as a part of lib, so, moved to regular
obj.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190323172531.80025-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>
[mchehab+samsung@kernel.org: fix broken doc references for div64.c and gcd.c]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/734f49bae5d4052b3c25691dfefad59bea2e5843.1555580999.git.mchehab+samsung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/lib/math/gcd.c b/lib/math/gcd.c
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+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/gcd.h>
+#include <linux/export.h>
+
+/*
+ * This implements the binary GCD algorithm. (Often attributed to Stein,
+ * but as Knuth has noted, appears in a first-century Chinese math text.)
+ *
+ * This is faster than the division-based algorithm even on x86, which
+ * has decent hardware division.
+ */
+
+#if !defined(CONFIG_CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS)
+
+/* If __ffs is available, the even/odd algorithm benchmarks slower. */
+
+/**
+ * gcd - calculate and return the greatest common divisor of 2 unsigned longs
+ * @a: first value
+ * @b: second value
+ */
+unsigned long gcd(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
+{
+	unsigned long r = a | b;
+
+	if (!a || !b)
+		return r;
+
+	b >>= __ffs(b);
+	if (b == 1)
+		return r & -r;
+
+	for (;;) {
+		a >>= __ffs(a);
+		if (a == 1)
+			return r & -r;
+		if (a == b)
+			return a << __ffs(r);
+
+		if (a < b)
+			swap(a, b);
+		a -= b;
+	}
+}
+
+#else
+
+/* If normalization is done by loops, the even/odd algorithm is a win. */
+unsigned long gcd(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
+{
+	unsigned long r = a | b;
+
+	if (!a || !b)
+		return r;
+
+	/* Isolate lsbit of r */
+	r &= -r;
+
+	while (!(b & r))
+		b >>= 1;
+	if (b == r)
+		return r;
+
+	for (;;) {
+		while (!(a & r))
+			a >>= 1;
+		if (a == r)
+			return r;
+		if (a == b)
+			return a;
+
+		if (a < b)
+			swap(a, b);
+		a -= b;
+		a >>= 1;
+		if (a & r)
+			a += b;
+		a >>= 1;
+	}
+}
+
+#endif
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gcd);