bitops.h: add sign_extend64()

Months back, this was discussed, see https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/18/289
The result was the 64-bit version being "likely fine", "valuable" and
"correct".  The discussion fell asleep but since there are possible users,
let's add it.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: George Spelvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>
Cc: Maxime Coquelin <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Yury Norov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

include/linux/bitops.h

@@ -173,6 +173,17 @@ static inline __s32 sign_extend32(__u32 value, int index)
 	return (__s32)(value << shift) >> shift;
 }
 
+/**
+ * sign_extend64 - sign extend a 64-bit value using specified bit as sign-bit
+ * @value: value to sign extend
+ * @index: 0 based bit index (0<=index<64) to sign bit
+ */
+static inline __s64 sign_extend64(__u64 value, int index)
+{
+	__u8 shift = 63 - index;
+	return (__s64)(value << shift) >> shift;
+}
+
 static inline unsigned fls_long(unsigned long l)
 {
 	if (sizeof(l) == 4)