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Donenfeld" , Jens Axboe , Lorenzo Stoakes , Mateusz Guzik , "Matthew Wilcox" , Pedro Falcato Subject: [PATCH v3 06/11 6.1.y] minmax.h: update some comments Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2025 18:00:24 +0000 Message-ID: <20251002180036.33738-7-farbere@amazon.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.3 In-Reply-To: <20251002180036.33738-1-farbere@amazon.com> References: <20251002180036.33738-1-farbere@amazon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Originating-IP: [172.19.116.181] X-ClientProxiedBy: EX19D035UWA003.ant.amazon.com (10.13.139.86) To EX19D018EUA004.ant.amazon.com (10.252.50.85) X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20251002_110308_275235_47A1939C X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 24.08 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org From: David Laight [ Upstream commit 10666e99204818ef45c702469488353b5bb09ec7 ] - Change three to several. - Remove the comment about retaining constant expressions, no longer true. - Realign to nearer 80 columns and break on major punctiation. - Add a leading comment to the block before __signed_type() and __is_nonneg() Otherwise the block explaining the cast is a bit 'floating'. Reword the rest of that comment to improve readability. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/85b050c81c1d4076aeb91a6cded45fee@AcuMS.aculab.com Signed-off-by: David Laight Cc: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Mateusz Guzik Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Pedro Falcato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Eliav Farber --- include/linux/minmax.h | 53 +++++++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/minmax.h b/include/linux/minmax.h index 51b0d988e322..24e4b372649a 100644 --- a/include/linux/minmax.h +++ b/include/linux/minmax.h @@ -8,13 +8,10 @@ #include /* - * min()/max()/clamp() macros must accomplish three things: + * min()/max()/clamp() macros must accomplish several things: * * - Avoid multiple evaluations of the arguments (so side-effects like * "x++" happen only once) when non-constant. - * - Retain result as a constant expressions when called with only - * constant expressions (to avoid tripping VLA warnings in stack - * allocation usage). * - Perform signed v unsigned type-checking (to generate compile * errors instead of nasty runtime surprises). * - Unsigned char/short are always promoted to signed int and can be @@ -31,25 +28,23 @@ * bit #0 set if ok for unsigned comparisons * bit #1 set if ok for signed comparisons * - * In particular, statically non-negative signed integer - * expressions are ok for both. + * In particular, statically non-negative signed integer expressions + * are ok for both. * - * NOTE! Unsigned types smaller than 'int' are implicitly - * converted to 'int' in expressions, and are accepted for - * signed conversions for now. This is debatable. + * NOTE! Unsigned types smaller than 'int' are implicitly converted to 'int' + * in expressions, and are accepted for signed conversions for now. + * This is debatable. * - * Note that 'x' is the original expression, and 'ux' is - * the unique variable that contains the value. + * Note that 'x' is the original expression, and 'ux' is the unique variable + * that contains the value. * - * We use 'ux' for pure type checking, and 'x' for when - * we need to look at the value (but without evaluating - * it for side effects! Careful to only ever evaluate it - * with sizeof() or __builtin_constant_p() etc). + * We use 'ux' for pure type checking, and 'x' for when we need to look at the + * value (but without evaluating it for side effects! + * Careful to only ever evaluate it with sizeof() or __builtin_constant_p() etc). * - * Pointers end up being checked by the normal C type - * rules at the actual comparison, and these expressions - * only need to be careful to not cause warnings for - * pointer use. + * Pointers end up being checked by the normal C type rules at the actual + * comparison, and these expressions only need to be careful to not cause + * warnings for pointer use. */ #define __signed_type_use(x, ux) (2 + __is_nonneg(x, ux)) #define __unsigned_type_use(x, ux) (1 + 2 * (sizeof(ux) < 4)) @@ -57,19 +52,19 @@ __signed_type_use(x, ux) : __unsigned_type_use(x, ux)) /* - * To avoid warnings about casting pointers to integers - * of different sizes, we need that special sign type. + * Check whether a signed value is always non-negative. * - * On 64-bit we can just always use 'long', since any - * integer or pointer type can just be cast to that. + * A cast is needed to avoid any warnings from values that aren't signed + * integer types (in which case the result doesn't matter). * - * This does not work for 128-bit signed integers since - * the cast would truncate them, but we do not use s128 - * types in the kernel (we do use 'u128', but they will - * be handled by the !is_signed_type() case). + * On 64-bit any integer or pointer type can safely be cast to 'long'. + * But on 32-bit we need to avoid warnings about casting pointers to integers + * of different sizes without truncating 64-bit values so 'long' or 'long long' + * must be used depending on the size of the value. * - * NOTE! The cast is there only to avoid any warnings - * from when values that aren't signed integer types. + * This does not work for 128-bit signed integers since the cast would truncate + * them, but we do not use s128 types in the kernel (we do use 'u128', + * but they are handled by the !is_signed_type() case). */ #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT #define __signed_type(ux) long -- 2.47.3