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diff --git a/include/linux/bitops.h b/include/linux/bitops.h
index cb3c3ef50f5..38c2fb7ebe0 100644
--- a/include/linux/bitops.h
+++ b/include/linux/bitops.h
@@ -84,6 +84,16 @@ static __inline__ int get_bitmask_order(unsigned int count)
return order; /* We could be slightly more clever with -1 here... */
}
+static __inline__ int get_count_order(unsigned int count)
+{
+ int order;
+
+ order = fls(count) - 1;
+ if (count & (count - 1))
+ order++;
+ return order;
+}
+
/*
* hweightN: returns the hamming weight (i.e. the number
* of bits set) of a N-bit word