The Hamming Weight of a number is the total number of bits set in it, so
the cpop/cpopw instruction from Zbb extension can be used to accelerate
hweight() API.
Signed-off-by: Xiao Wang <xiao.w.wang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231112095244.4015351-1-xiao.w.wang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Xiao Wang