From: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 01/10] put alignment macros in align.h
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:11:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17653.47296.222332.231821@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060829201934.A5363374@localhost.localdomain>
Dave Hansen writes:
>
[...]
> + */
> +#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
> +#define ALIGN(x,a) (((x)+(a)-1)&~((a)-1))
This evaluates (a) twice. While in all existing call-sites (a) is
probably a constant, it's still safer to do
#define ALIGN(x,a) ({ typeof(a) __a = (a); (((x) + __a - 1) & ~(__a - 1)); })
in a generic macro and rely on compiler to optimize temporary variable
out.
Nikita.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-30 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-29 20:19 [RFC][PATCH 00/10] generic PAGE_SIZE infrastructure (v3) Dave Hansen
2006-08-29 20:19 ` [RFC][PATCH 01/10] put alignment macros in align.h Dave Hansen
2006-08-30 16:11 ` Nikita Danilov [this message]
2006-08-30 16:48 ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-29 20:19 ` [RFC][PATCH 02/10] conditionally define generic get_order() (ARCH_HAS_GET_ORDER) Dave Hansen
2006-08-30 10:20 ` Paul Mundt
2006-08-29 20:19 ` [RFC][PATCH 03/10] actual generic PAGE_SIZE infrastructure Dave Hansen
2006-08-29 20:19 ` [RFC][PATCH 04/10] replace _ALIGN() Dave Hansen
2006-08-29 20:19 ` [RFC][PATCH 05/10] ia64 generic PAGE_SIZE Dave Hansen
2006-08-29 20:19 ` [RFC][PATCH 06/10] sparc64 " Dave Hansen
2006-08-29 21:33 ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-29 20:19 ` [RFC][PATCH 07/10] mips " Dave Hansen
2006-08-29 20:19 ` [RFC][PATCH 08/10] parisc " Dave Hansen
2006-08-29 20:19 ` [RFC][PATCH 09/10] powerpc " Dave Hansen
2006-08-29 20:19 ` [RFC][PATCH 10/10] convert the "easy" architectures to " Dave Hansen
2006-08-29 21:06 ` Luck, Tony
2006-08-29 21:13 ` [RFC][PATCH 10/10] convert the "easy" architectures to generic Dave Hansen
2006-08-30 10:05 ` [RFC][PATCH 10/10] convert the "easy" architectures to generic PAGE_SIZE Paul Mundt
2006-08-30 14:56 ` [RFC][PATCH 10/10] convert the "easy" architectures to generic Dave Hansen
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