linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] intel-iommu: fix build with CONFIG_BRANCH

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Date:	Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:33:55 -0700
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] intel-iommu: fix build with CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 11:02 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> for_each_active_iommu() and for_each_iommu() uses some tricky
> C that is weird and borderline valid but does not allow the
> macro evaluation trick used by the branch tracer/profiler:
> 
>    drivers/pci/intr_remapping.c:680:28: error: macro "if" passed 2
> arguments, but takes just 1
> 
> Switch it to a braced group statement.

It doesn't even need the braces -- just putting simple parens around the
comma-expression would have sufficed (that was Andrew's attempt).

But it's a workaround, not a fix -- if we're going to #define if() then
we should damn well make it transparent, and not have to work around
breakage in arbitrary places.

Hence the patch I sent to Linus last night, which fixes it in the
_right_ place:
	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123907505308502&w=2

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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