Roland Dreier cc8ef6eb21 kernel.h: add BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2()
Add BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2()

When code relies on a constant being a power of 2:

	#define FOO	512	/* must be a power of 2 */

it would be nice to be able to do:

	BUILD_BUG_ON(!is_power_of_2(FOO));

However applying an inline function does not result in a compile-time
constant that can be used with BUILD_BUG_ON(), so trying that gives
results in:

	error: bit-field '<anonymous>' width not an integer constant

As suggested by akpm, rather than monkeying around with is_power_of_2()
and risking gcc warts about constant expressions, just create a macro
BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2() to encapsulate this common requirement.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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