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commit 89a0714106aac7309c7dfa0f004b39e1e89d2942 upstream.
Create constants that define the maximum and minimum values
representable by the kernel types u8, s8, u16, s16, and so on.
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
---
include/linux/kernel.h | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
@@ -29,6 +29,19 @@
#define ULLONG_MAX (~0ULL)
#define SIZE_MAX (~(size_t)0)
+#define U8_MAX ((u8)~0U)
+#define S8_MAX ((s8)(U8_MAX>>1))
+#define S8_MIN ((s8)(-S8_MAX - 1))
+#define U16_MAX ((u16)~0U)
+#define S16_MAX ((s16)(U16_MAX>>1))
+#define S16_MIN ((s16)(-S16_MAX - 1))
+#define U32_MAX ((u32)~0U)
+#define S32_MAX ((s32)(U32_MAX>>1))
+#define S32_MIN ((s32)(-S32_MAX - 1))
+#define U64_MAX ((u64)~0ULL)
+#define S64_MAX ((s64)(U64_MAX>>1))
+#define S64_MIN ((s64)(-S64_MAX - 1))
+
#define STACK_MAGIC 0xdeadbeef
#define REPEAT_BYTE(x) ((~0ul / 0xff) * (x))
From: Alex Elder <alex.elder@linaro.org> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know.