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-rw-r--r--lib/int_sqrt.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/int_sqrt.c b/lib/int_sqrt.c
index db0b5aa071fc..e2d329099bf7 100644
--- a/lib/int_sqrt.c
+++ b/lib/int_sqrt.c
@@ -8,12 +8,13 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
+#include <linux/bitops.h>
/**
- * int_sqrt - rough approximation to sqrt
+ * int_sqrt - computes the integer square root
* @x: integer of which to calculate the sqrt
*
- * A very rough approximation to the sqrt() function.
+ * Computes: floor(sqrt(x))
*/
unsigned long int_sqrt(unsigned long x)
{
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ unsigned long int_sqrt(unsigned long x)
if (x <= 1)
return x;
- m = 1UL << (BITS_PER_LONG - 2);
+ m = 1UL << (__fls(x) & ~1UL);
while (m != 0) {
b = y + m;
y >>= 1;