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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@gmail.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3 of 8] x86: add _AT() macro to conditionally cast
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:11:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7e7db3facd940654510.1199391060@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <patchbomb.1199391057@localhost>

# HG changeset patch
# User Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
# Date 1199317452 28800
# Node ID f7e7db3facd9406545103164f9be8f9ba1a2b549
# Parent  4d9a413a0f4c1d98dbea704f0366457b5117045d
x86: add _AT() macro to conditionally cast

Define _AT(type, value) to conditionally cast a value when compiling C
code, but not when used in assembler.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

---
 include/linux/const.h |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/const.h b/include/linux/const.h
--- a/include/linux/const.h
+++ b/include/linux/const.h
@@ -7,13 +7,18 @@
  * C code.  Therefore we cannot annotate them always with
  * 'UL' and other type specifiers unilaterally.  We
  * use the following macros to deal with this.
+ *
+ * Similarly, _AT() will cast an expression with a type in C, but
+ * leave it unchanged in asm.
  */
 
 #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__
 #define _AC(X,Y)	X
+#define _AT(T,X)	X
 #else
 #define __AC(X,Y)	(X##Y)
 #define _AC(X,Y)	__AC(X,Y)
+#define _AT(T,X)	((T)(X))
 #endif
 
 #endif /* !(_LINUX_CONST_H) */



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-04  5:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-03 20:10 [PATCH 0 of 8] x86: unify asm/page.h Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-03 20:10 ` [PATCH 1 of 8] x86: page.h: unify constants Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-07 17:17   ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-07 22:13     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-07 23:13       ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-08  1:11         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-03 20:10 ` [PATCH 2 of 8] x86: page.h: unify page copying and clearing Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-03 20:11 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-01-03 20:11 ` [PATCH 4 of 8] x86: page.h: move and unify types for pagetable entry definitions Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-03 20:11 ` [PATCH 5 of 8] x86: page.h: move pa and va related things Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-03 20:11 ` [PATCH 6 of 8] x86: page.h: move remaining bits and pieces Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-03 20:11 ` [PATCH 7 of 8] x86: page.h: move things back to their own files Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-03 20:11 ` [PATCH 8 of 8] x86/efi: fix improper use of lvalue Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-04  7:38 ` [PATCH 0 of 8] x86: unify asm/page.h Ingo Molnar

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