string: introduce memweight()

memweight() is the function that counts the total number of bits set in
memory area.  Unlike bitmap_weight(), memweight() takes pointer and size
in bytes to specify a memory area which does not need to be aligned to
long-word boundary.

[[email protected]: rename `w' to `ret']
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <[email protected]>
Cc: Anders Larsen <[email protected]>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <[email protected]>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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