On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:47:03 -0600 Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The AdvanSys driver wants to align some pointers, and the ALIGN macro
> doesn't work for pointers. Rather than try to make it work, add a new
> PTR_ALIGN macro which is typesafe.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
> index f592df7..47160fe 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kernel.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ extern const char linux_proc_banner[];
>
> #define ALIGN(x,a) __ALIGN_MASK(x,(typeof(x))(a)-1)
> #define __ALIGN_MASK(x,mask) (((x)+(mask))&~(mask))
> +#define PTR_ALIGN(p, a) ((typeof(p))ALIGN((unsigned long)(p), (a)))
>
> #define ARRAY_SIZE(arr) (sizeof(arr) / sizeof((arr)[0]) + __must_be_array(arr))
>
I'll plan on getting this thing of beauty into mainline in the next week or
so, so you can get those advansys changes into James's tree.
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