Patch "bitops: Add clear/set_bit32() to linux/bitops.h" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

bitops: Add clear/set_bit32() to linux/bitops.h

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
bitops-add-clear-set_bit32-to-linux-bitops.h.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 14:56:41 -0700
Subject: bitops: Add clear/set_bit32() to linux/bitops.h

From: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>

commit cbe96375025e14fc76f9ed42ee5225120d7210f8 upstream.

Add two simple wrappers around set_bit/clear_bit() that accept the common case of an u32 array. This avoids writing casts in all callers.

---
 include/linux/bitops.h |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

@@ -228,6 +228,32 @@ static inline unsigned long __ffs64(u64
 	return __ffs((unsigned long)word);
 }
 
+/*
+ * clear_bit32 - Clear a bit in memory for u32 array
+ * @nr: Bit to clear
+ * @addr: u32 * address of bitmap
+ *
+ * Same as clear_bit, but avoids needing casts for u32 arrays.
+ */
+
+static __always_inline void clear_bit32(long nr, volatile u32 *addr)
+{
+	clear_bit(nr, (volatile unsigned long *)addr);
+}
+
+/*
+ * set_bit32 - Set a bit in memory for u32 array
+ * @nr: Bit to clear
+ * @addr: u32 * address of bitmap
+ *
+ * Same as set_bit, but avoids needing casts for u32 arrays.
+ */
+
+static __always_inline void set_bit32(long nr, volatile u32 *addr)
+{
+	set_bit(nr, (volatile unsigned long *)addr);
+}
+
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
 #ifndef set_mask_bits

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/bitops-add-clear-set_bit32-to-linux-bitops.h.patch queue-4.14/x86-fpu-remove-the-explicit-clearing-of-xsave-dependent-features.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpuid-add-generic-table-for-cpuid-dependencies.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpuid-prevent-out-of-bound-access-in-do_clear_cpu_cap.patch queue-4.14/x86-fpu-parse-clearcpuid-as-early-xsave-argument.patch queue-4.14/x86-fpu-make-xsave-check-the-base-cpuid-features-before-enabling.patch