Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/pat

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/bitmap.c b/lib/bitmap.c
index 482df94ea21..06fb57c86de 100644
--- a/lib/bitmap.c
+++ b/lib/bitmap.c
@@ -316,6 +316,17 @@ int bitmap_scnprintf(char *buf, unsigned int buflen,
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmap_scnprintf);
 
 /**
+ * bitmap_scnprintf_len - return buffer length needed to convert
+ * bitmap to an ASCII hex string
+ * @nr_bits: number of bits to be converted
+ */
+int bitmap_scnprintf_len(unsigned int nr_bits)
+{
+	unsigned int nr_nibbles = ALIGN(nr_bits, 4) / 4;
+	return nr_nibbles + ALIGN(nr_nibbles, CHUNKSZ / 4) / (CHUNKSZ / 4) - 1;
+}
+
+/**
  * __bitmap_parse - convert an ASCII hex string into a bitmap.
  * @buf: pointer to buffer containing string.
  * @buflen: buffer size in bytes.  If string is smaller than this