History log of /linux-master/include/linux/const.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 598f0ac1 05-Oct-2023 David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>

compiler.h: move __is_constexpr() to compiler.h

Prior to f747e6667ebb2 __is_constexpr() was in its only user minmax.h.
That commit moved it to const.h - but that file just defines ULL(x) and
UL(x) so that constants can be defined for .S and .c files.

So apart from the word 'const' it wasn't really a good location. Instead
move the definition to compiler.h just before the similar

is_signed_type() and is_unsigned_type().

This may not be a good long-term home, but the three definitions belong
together.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2a6680bbe2e84459816a113730426782@AcuMS.aculab.com
Signed-off-by: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>


# f747e666 22-May-2021 Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@gmail.com>

linux/bits.h: fix compilation error with GENMASK

GENMASK() has an input check which uses __builtin_choose_expr() to
enable a compile time sanity check of its inputs if they are known at
compile time.

However, it turns out that __builtin_constant_p() does not always return
a compile time constant [0]. It was thought this problem was fixed with
gcc 4.9 [1], but apparently this is not the case [2].

Switch to use __is_constexpr() instead which always returns a compile time
constant, regardless of its inputs.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/42b4342b-aefc-a16a-0d43-9f9c0d63ba7a@rasmusvillemoes.dk [0]
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19449 [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1ac7bbc2-45d9-26ed-0b33-bf382b8d858b@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210511203716.117010-1-rikard.falkeborn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 8165b57b 20-Mar-2020 Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>

linux/const.h: Extract common header for vDSO

The vDSO library should only include the necessary headers required for
a userspace library (UAPI and a minimal set of kernel headers). To make
this possible it is necessary to isolate from the kernel headers the
common parts that are strictly necessary to build the library.

Split const.h into linux and common headers to make the latter suitable
for inclusion in the vDSO library.

Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200320145351.32292-2-vincenzo.frascino@arm.com


# 2dd8a62c 10-Apr-2018 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

linux/const.h: move UL() macro to include/linux/const.h

ARM, ARM64 and UniCore32 duplicate the definition of UL():

#define UL(x) _AC(x, UL)

This is not actually arch-specific, so it will be useful to move it to a
common header. Currently, we only have the uapi variant for
linux/const.h, so I am creating include/linux/const.h.

I also added _UL(), _ULL() and ULL() because _AC() is mostly used in
the form either _AC(..., UL) or _AC(..., ULL). I expect they will be
replaced in follow-up cleanups. The underscore-prefixed ones should
be used for exported headers.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519301715-31798-4-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 74ef649f 30-Jan-2008 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>

x86: add _AT() macro to conditionally cast

# 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>

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


# 6df95fd7 08-May-2007 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

consolidate asm/const.h to linux/const.h

Make a global linux/const.h header file instead of having multiple,
per-arch files, and convert current users of asm/const.h to use
linux/const.h.

Built on x86_64 and sparc64.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix include/asm-x86_64/Kbuild]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>