History log of /linux-master/tools/include/linux/bits.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 811f35ff 03-Mar-2023 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

tools headers: Synchronize {linux,vdso}/bits.h with the kernel sources

To pick up the changes in this cset:

cbdb1f163af2bb90 ("vdso/bits.h: Add BIT_ULL() for the sake of consistency")

That just causes perf to rebuild, the macro included doesn't clash with
anything in tools/{perf,objtool,bpf}.

This addresses this perf build warning:

Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/linux/bits.h' differs from latest version at 'include/linux/bits.h'
diff -u tools/include/linux/bits.h include/linux/bits.h
Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/vdso/bits.h' differs from latest version at 'include/vdso/bits.h'
diff -u tools/include/vdso/bits.h include/vdso/bits.h

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 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>


# 6ec4476a 08-Jul-2020 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9

I realize that we fairly recently raised it to 4.8, but the fact is, 4.9
is a much better minimum version to target.

We have a number of workarounds for actual bugs in pre-4.9 gcc versions
(including things like internal compiler errors on ARM), but we also
have some syntactic workarounds for lacking features.

In particular, raising the minimum to 4.9 means that we can now just
assume _Generic() exists, which is likely the much better replacement
for a lot of very convoluted built-time magic with conditionals on
sizeof and/or __builtin_choose_expr() with same_type() etc.

Using _Generic also means that you will need to have a very recent
version of 'sparse', but thats easy to build yourself, and much less of
a hassle than some old gcc version can be.

The latest (in a long string) of reasons for minimum compiler version
upgrades was commit 5435f73d5c4a ("efi/x86: Fix build with gcc 4").

Ard points out that RHEL 7 uses gcc-4.8, but the people who stay back on
old RHEL versions persumably also don't build their own kernels anyway.
And maybe they should cross-built or just have a little side affair with
a newer compiler?

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# e3698b23 14-Apr-2020 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

tools headers: Synchronize linux/bits.h with the kernel sources

To pick up the changes in these csets:

295bcca84916 ("linux/bits.h: add compile time sanity check of GENMASK inputs")
3945ff37d2f4 ("linux/bits.h: Extract common header for vDSO")

To address this tools/perf build warning:

Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/linux/bits.h' differs from latest version at 'include/linux/bits.h'
diff -u tools/include/linux/bits.h include/linux/bits.h

This clashes with usage of userspace's static_assert(), that, at least
on glibc, is guarded by a ifnded/endif pair, do the same to our copy of
build_bug.h and avoid that diff in check_headers.sh so that we continue
checking for drifts with the kernel sources master copy.

This will all be tested with the set of build containers that includes
uCLibc, musl libc, lots of glibc versions in lots of distros and cross
build environments.

The tools/objtool, tools/bpf, etc were tested as well.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# b6589117 19-Aug-2019 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

tools headers: Synchronize linux/bits.h with the kernel sources

To pick up the changes in this cset:

95b980d62d52 ("linux/bits.h: make BIT(), GENMASK(), and friends available in assembly")

To address this tools/perf build warning:

Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/linux/bits.h' differs from latest version at 'include/linux/bits.h'
diff -u tools/include/linux/bits.h include/linux/bits.h

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1if3iga5r3di6oyddgxsr225@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# ba4aa02b 25-Sep-2018 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

tools include: Adopt linux/bits.h

So that we reduce the difference of tools/include/linux/bitops.h to the
original kernel file, include/linux/bitops.h, trying to remove the need
to define BITS_PER_LONG, to avoid clashes with asm/bitsperlong.h.

And the things removed from tools/include/linux/bitops.h are really in
linux/bits.h, so that we can have a copy and then
tools/perf/check_headers.sh will tell us when new stuff gets added to
linux/bits.h so that we can check if it is useful and if any adjustment
needs to be done to the tools/{include,arch}/ copies.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-y1sqyydvfzo0bjjoj4zsl562@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>