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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ltt-dev@lists.casi.polymtl.ca,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
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	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Imre Deak <imre.deak@nokia.com>,
	Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for -tip 1/2] kernel.h: add MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:27:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100822192705.GE1771@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100821142215.023431313@efficios.com>

> +/* Force a compilation error if condition is constant and not a power of 2 */
> +#define MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2(n)		\
> +	MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON((n) == 0 || (((n) & ((n) - 1)) != 0))

Looks super-ugly. IMHO just writing MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON(!n || n & (n - 1)) directly
would be clear enough. If you really think that's unclear define a generic
is_power_of_two() macro.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-22 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-21 14:17 [PATCH for -tip 0/2] Generic Alignment API Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-21 14:17 ` [PATCH for -tip 2/2] Create generic alignment API (v9) Mathieu Desnoyers
     [not found] ` <20100821142215.023431313@efficios.com>
2010-08-21 18:26   ` [PATCH for -tip 1/2] kernel.h: add MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2 Alexey Dobriyan
2010-08-21 18:40     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-22 19:27   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-08-22 19:38     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-22 20:16       ` Anca Emanuel
2010-08-22 21:03         ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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