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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2022-10-16 16:06:53 -0700
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2022-10-16 16:06:53 -0700
commit280330fac48280e16454cfa46c368af4812ad79c (patch)
tree18b9ed796c57e3929e50b9b03f2c6501740b03d6 /include/linux/compiler.h
parentd0d51a97063db4704a5ef6bc978dddab1636a306 (diff)
parent4fe89d07dcc2804c8b562f6c7896a45643d34b2f (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into mm-hotfixes-stable
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compiler.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compiler.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 01ce94b58b42..7713d7bcdaea 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -240,6 +240,12 @@ static inline void *offset_to_ptr(const int *off)
#define __must_be_array(a) BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(__same_type((a), &(a)[0]))
/*
+ * Whether 'type' is a signed type or an unsigned type. Supports scalar types,
+ * bool and also pointer types.
+ */
+#define is_signed_type(type) (((type)(-1)) < (__force type)1)
+
+/*
* This is needed in functions which generate the stack canary, see
* arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c::start_secondary() for an example.
*/