From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Cc: "Bill Wendling" <morbo@google.com>,
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"Jan Hendrik Farr" <kernel@jfarr.cc>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Compiler Attributes: Add __counted_by_ptr macro
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 09:35:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260116083516.GI830755@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANiq72=kqJApbOJ0hmC_mAYe6DO8YqXSFaLJOsbPhkXfxmvJHQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 10:47:45PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > +/*
> > + * Optional: only supported since clang >= 21
> > + *
> > + * clang: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/137250
> > + */
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY_FOR_POINTER
> > +#define __counted_by_ptr(member) __attribute__((__counted_by__(member)))
> > +#else
> > +#define __counted_by_ptr(member)
> > +#endif
>
> I guess there is a reason for this name, but it sounds to me a bit
> like the thing between parenthesis is a pointer, i.e. that perhaps it
> is the pointee that one that counts.
>
> Hmm... what about `__ptr_counted_by`?
Kees promised to drop this attribute once GCC-16 releases by basically
doing 's/__counted_by_ptr/__counted_by/' and unifying things again.
This split out state will only exist for a very short while until GCC
has a release with this feature on.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-16 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-21 19:39 [PATCH 0/2] Add __counted_by_ptr macro Bill Wendling
2025-11-21 19:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] Compiler Attributes: " Bill Wendling
2025-11-21 19:46 ` Bill Wendling
2025-11-21 19:54 ` [PATCH v2 " Bill Wendling
2025-11-21 21:47 ` Miguel Ojeda
2025-11-24 20:01 ` Bill Wendling
2026-01-16 8:35 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2026-01-17 19:05 ` Kees Cook
2026-01-17 19:18 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-01-14 19:36 ` [PATCH " Bill Wendling
2026-01-15 4:00 ` Kees Cook
2026-01-16 0:59 ` Bill Wendling
2026-01-16 8:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-01-17 19:06 ` Kees Cook
2026-01-16 0:57 ` [PATCH v4 " Bill Wendling
2026-01-16 9:53 ` David Laight
2026-01-17 19:07 ` Kees Cook
2026-01-20 18:12 ` Bill Wendling
2026-01-20 19:15 ` David Laight
2026-01-20 18:11 ` Bill Wendling
2026-01-17 19:01 ` Kees Cook
2026-02-10 8:41 ` [PATCH " Arnd Bergmann
2026-02-10 11:00 ` Bill Wendling
2026-02-10 11:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-02-10 11:29 ` Bill Wendling
2025-11-21 19:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] memblock: annotate struct memblock_type with __counted_by_ptr Bill Wendling
2025-11-22 0:30 ` Kees Cook
2025-11-22 22:16 ` Andrew Morton
2025-11-24 19:19 ` Kees Cook
2025-11-24 20:15 ` Bill Wendling
2026-01-16 8:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-01-20 21:06 ` Bill Wendling
2025-11-25 12:08 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-11-21 23:25 ` [PATCH 0/2] Add __counted_by_ptr macro Kees Cook
2025-11-24 20:05 ` Bill Wendling
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