RE: [PATCH 0/7 5.10.y] Cherry pick of minmax.h commits from 5.15.y

["Farber, Eliav" <farbere@amazon.com>]

> On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:22:52 +0000
> Eliav Farber <farbere@amazon.com> wrote:
>
> > This series backports seven commits from v5.15.y that update minmax.h 
> > and related code:
> >
> >  - ed6e37e30826 ("tracing: Define the is_signed_type() macro once")
> >  - 998f03984e25 ("minmax: sanity check constant bounds when clamping")
> >  - d470787b25e6 ("minmax: clamp more efficiently by avoiding extra
> >    comparison")
> >  - 1c2ee5bc9f11 ("minmax: fix header inclusions")
> >  - d53b5d862acd ("minmax: allow min()/max()/clamp() if the arguments
> >    have the same signedness.")
> >  - 7ed91c5560df ("minmax: allow comparisons of 'int' against 'unsigned
> >    char/short'")
> >  - 22f7794ef5a3 ("minmax: relax check to allow comparison between
> >    unsigned arguments and signed constants")
>
> I think you need to pick up the later changes (from Linus) as well.
> Without them nested min() and max() can generate very long lines from the pre-processor (tens of megabytes) that cause very slow and/or failing compilations on 32bit and other memory-limited systems.
>
> There are a few other changes needed at the same time.
> The current min() and max() can't be used in a few places because they aren't 'constant enough' with constant arguments.

I aligned minmax.h to include all changes in v6.17-rc6.
https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20250919101727.16152-1-farbere@amazon.com/T/#t

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Regards, Eliav