[PATCH RESEND 1/3] bitmap: introduce bitmap_weighted_xor()

From: Yury Norov

Date: Tue Feb 24 2026 - 19:00:26 EST


The function helps to XOR bitmaps and calculate Hamming weight of
the result in one pass.

Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/bitmap.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
lib/bitmap.c | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/bitmap.h b/include/linux/bitmap.h
index b0395e4ccf90..5485076bb2d0 100644
--- a/include/linux/bitmap.h
+++ b/include/linux/bitmap.h
@@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ void __bitmap_or(unsigned long *dst, const unsigned long *bitmap1,
const unsigned long *bitmap2, unsigned int nbits);
unsigned int __bitmap_weighted_or(unsigned long *dst, const unsigned long *bitmap1,
const unsigned long *bitmap2, unsigned int nbits);
+unsigned int __bitmap_weighted_xor(unsigned long *dst, const unsigned long *bitmap1,
+ const unsigned long *bitmap2, unsigned int nbits);
void __bitmap_xor(unsigned long *dst, const unsigned long *bitmap1,
const unsigned long *bitmap2, unsigned int nbits);
bool __bitmap_andnot(unsigned long *dst, const unsigned long *bitmap1,
@@ -352,6 +354,18 @@ unsigned int bitmap_weighted_or(unsigned long *dst, const unsigned long *src1,
}
}

+static __always_inline
+unsigned int bitmap_weighted_xor(unsigned long *dst, const unsigned long *src1,
+ const unsigned long *src2, unsigned int nbits)
+{
+ if (small_const_nbits(nbits)) {
+ *dst = *src1 ^ *src2;
+ return hweight_long(*dst & BITMAP_LAST_WORD_MASK(nbits));
+ } else {
+ return __bitmap_weighted_xor(dst, src1, src2, nbits);
+ }
+}
+
static __always_inline
void bitmap_xor(unsigned long *dst, const unsigned long *src1,
const unsigned long *src2, unsigned int nbits)
diff --git a/lib/bitmap.c b/lib/bitmap.c
index 9dc526507875..a2bcb5b1fe99 100644
--- a/lib/bitmap.c
+++ b/lib/bitmap.c
@@ -361,6 +361,13 @@ unsigned int __bitmap_weighted_or(unsigned long *dst, const unsigned long *bitma
return BITMAP_WEIGHT(({dst[idx] = bitmap1[idx] | bitmap2[idx]; dst[idx]; }), bits);
}

+unsigned int __bitmap_weighted_xor(unsigned long *dst, const unsigned long *bitmap1,
+ const unsigned long *bitmap2, unsigned int bits)
+{
+ return BITMAP_WEIGHT(({dst[idx] = bitmap1[idx] ^ bitmap2[idx]; dst[idx]; }), bits);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__bitmap_weighted_xor);
+
void __bitmap_set(unsigned long *map, unsigned int start, int len)
{
unsigned long *p = map + BIT_WORD(start);
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