[PATCH 13/27 5.10.y] minmax: add a few more MIN_T/MAX_T users

Eliav Farber
2025-09-19T10:25:33Z

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[ Upstream commit 4477b39c32fdc03363affef4b11d48391e6dc9ff ]

Commit 3a7e02c040b1 ("minmax: avoid overly complicated constant
expressions in VM code") added the simpler MIN_T/MAX_T macros in order
to avoid some excessive expansion from the rather complicated regular
min/max macros.

The complexity of those macros stems from two issues:

(a) trying to use them in situations that require a C constant
expression (in static initializers and for array sizes)

(b) the type sanity checking

and MIN_T/MAX_T avoids both of these issues.

Now, in the whole (long) discussion about all this, it was pointed out
that the whole type sanity checking is entirely unnecessary for
min_t/max_t which get a fixed type that the comparison is done in.

But that still leaves min_t/max_t unnecessarily complicated due to
worries about the C constant expression case.

However, it turns out that there really aren't very many cases that use
min_t/max_t for this, and we can just force-convert those.

This does exactly that.

Which in turn will then allow for much simpler implementations of
min_t()/max_t(). All the usual "macros in all upper case will evaluate
the arguments multiple times" rules apply.

We should do all the same things for the regular min/max() vs MIN/MAX()
cases, but that has the added complexity of various drivers defining
their own local versions of MIN/MAX, so that needs another level of
fixes first.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/b47fad1d0cf8449886ad148f8c013dae@AcuMS.aculab.com/
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eliav Farber <farbere@amazon.com>
---
arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 2 +-
drivers/edac/sb_edac.c | 4 ++--
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c | 2 +-
drivers/md/dm-integrity.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 2 +-
net/ipv4/proc.c | 2 +-
net/ipv6/proc.c | 2 +-
7 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index 204b25ee26f0..27e8e3d6be48 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static inline void pgd_list_del(pgd_t *pgd)
#define UNSHARED_PTRS_PER_PGD \
(SHARED_KERNEL_PMD ? KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY : PTRS_PER_PGD)
#define MAX_UNSHARED_PTRS_PER_PGD \
- max_t(size_t, KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY, PTRS_PER_PGD)
+ MAX_T(size_t, KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY, PTRS_PER_PGD)

static void pgd_set_mm(pgd_t *pgd, struct mm_struct *mm)
diff --git a/drivers/edac/sb_edac.c b/drivers/edac/sb_edac.c
index 1522d4aa2ca6..714020e7405a 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/sb_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/sb_edac.c
@@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ static const u32 knl_interleave_list[] = {
0x104, 0x10c, 0x114, 0x11c, /* 20-23 */
};
#define MAX_INTERLEAVE \
- (max_t(unsigned int, ARRAY_SIZE(sbridge_interleave_list), \
- max_t(unsigned int, ARRAY_SIZE(ibridge_interleave_list), \
+ (MAX_T(unsigned int, ARRAY_SIZE(sbridge_interleave_list), \
+ MAX_T(unsigned int, ARRAY_SIZE(ibridge_interleave_list), \
ARRAY_SIZE(knl_interleave_list))))

struct interleave_pkg {
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c
index 138ff34b31db..4bc671484c05 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ int drm_plane_create_color_properties(struct drm_plane *plane,
{
struct drm_device *dev = plane->dev;
struct drm_property *prop;
- struct drm_prop_enum_list enum_list[max_t(int, DRM_COLOR_ENCODING_MAX,
+ struct drm_prop_enum_list enum_list[MAX_T(int, DRM_COLOR_ENCODING_MAX,
DRM_COLOR_RANGE_MAX)];
int i, len;

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c b/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c
index 07a7b4e51f0e..7fa3bf74747d 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c
@@ -2431,7 +2431,7 @@ static void do_journal_write(struct dm_integrity_c *ic, unsigned write_start,
unlikely(from_replay) &&
#endif
ic->internal_hash) {
- char test_tag[max_t(size_t, HASH_MAX_DIGESTSIZE, MAX_TAG_SIZE)];
+ char test_tag[MAX_T(size_t, HASH_MAX_DIGESTSIZE, MAX_TAG_SIZE)];

integrity_sector_checksum(ic, sec + ((l - j) << ic->sb->log2_sectors_per_block),
(char *)access_journal_data(ic, i, l), test_tag);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
index b8581a711514..e6fa2782d28f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
@@ -2267,7 +2267,7 @@ static void stmmac_dma_interrupt(struct stmmac_priv *priv)
u32 channels_to_check = tx_channel_count > rx_channel_count ?
tx_channel_count : rx_channel_count;
u32 chan;
- int status[max_t(u32, MTL_MAX_TX_QUEUES, MTL_MAX_RX_QUEUES)];
+ int status[MAX_T(u32, MTL_MAX_TX_QUEUES, MTL_MAX_RX_QUEUES)];

/* Make sure we never check beyond our status buffer. */
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(channels_to_check > ARRAY_SIZE(status)))
diff --git a/net/ipv4/proc.c b/net/ipv4/proc.c
index 80d13d8f982d..94fbba052b49 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/proc.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/proc.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
#include <net/sock.h>
#include <net/raw.h>

-#define TCPUDP_MIB_MAX max_t(u32, UDP_MIB_MAX, TCP_MIB_MAX)
+#define TCPUDP_MIB_MAX MAX_T(u32, UDP_MIB_MAX, TCP_MIB_MAX)

/*
* Report socket allocation statistics [mea@utu.fi]
diff --git a/net/ipv6/proc.c b/net/ipv6/proc.c
index bbff3e02e302..929981a8fe98 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/proc.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/proc.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
#include <net/ipv6.h>

#define MAX4(a, b, c, d) \
- max_t(u32, max_t(u32, a, b), max_t(u32, c, d))
+ MAX_T(u32, MAX_T(u32, a, b), MAX_T(u32, c, d))
#define SNMP_MIB_MAX MAX4(UDP_MIB_MAX, TCP_MIB_MAX, \
IPSTATS_MIB_MAX, ICMP_MIB_MAX)

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