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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-01-26 14:03:44 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-01-26 14:03:44 -0800 |
commit | 5fb40886243b64b8e084b99d983a19c10e296e9c (patch) | |
tree | 941a3dc7901d2e54be1ba6b166ac6ca21ae45911 /include/linux/compiler.h | |
parent | c2da8b3f914f83fb9089d26a692eb8f22146ddb9 (diff) | |
parent | e876695aab1e3d4743e11633219cea456820660b (diff) |
Merge tag 'bitmap-for-6.14' of https://github.com:/norov/linux
Pull bitmap updates from Yury Norov:
"This includes const_true() series from Vincent Mailhol, another
__always_inline rework from Nathan Chancellor for RISCV, and a couple
of random fixes from Dr. David Alan Gilbert and I Hsin Cheng"
* tag 'bitmap-for-6.14' of https://github.com:/norov/linux:
cpumask: Rephrase comments for cpumask_any*() APIs
cpu: Remove unused init_cpu_online
riscv: Always inline bitops
linux/bits.h: simplify GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK()
compiler.h: add const_true()
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compiler.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/compiler.h | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h index efd43df3a99a..b087de2f3e94 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h @@ -308,6 +308,28 @@ static inline void *offset_to_ptr(const int *off) #define statically_true(x) (__builtin_constant_p(x) && (x)) /* + * Similar to statically_true() but produces a constant expression + * + * To be used in conjunction with macros, such as BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(), + * which require their input to be a constant expression and for which + * statically_true() would otherwise fail. + * + * This is a trade-off: const_true() requires all its operands to be + * compile time constants. Else, it would always returns false even on + * the most trivial cases like: + * + * true || non_const_var + * + * On the opposite, statically_true() is able to fold more complex + * tautologies and will return true on expressions such as: + * + * !(non_const_var * 8 % 4) + * + * For the general case, statically_true() is better. + */ +#define const_true(x) __builtin_choose_expr(__is_constexpr(x), x, false) + +/* * This is needed in functions which generate the stack canary, see * arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c::start_secondary() for an example. */ |