From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:32:42 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: x86: add _AT() macro to conditionally cast
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.25-rc1~1143^2~409
X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=74ef649fe847fdfbd3e1732d21b923f59ca04e8c;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git

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>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/const.h b/include/linux/const.h
index 07b300bfe34..c22c707c455 100644
--- 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) */