Re: [PATCH 5/7] sched: loadavg: make calc_load_n() public

On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 05:01:33PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:

+static inline unsigned long
+fixed_power_int(unsigned long x, unsigned int frac_bits, unsigned int n)
+{
+	unsigned long result = 1UL << frac_bits;
+
+	if (n) {
+		for (;;) {
+			if (n & 1) {
+				result *= x;
+				result += 1UL << (frac_bits - 1);
+				result >>= frac_bits;
+			}
+			n >>= 1;
+			if (!n)
+				break;
+			x *= x;
+			x += 1UL << (frac_bits - 1);
+			x >>= frac_bits;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return result;
+}

No real objection; but that does look a wee bit fat for an inline I
suppose.