linux-kernel - Re: + kernelh-make-abs-work-with-64-bit-types.patch added to -mm tree

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Date:	Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:32:55 +0200
From:	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, john.stultz@...aro.org,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: + kernelh-make-abs-work-with-64-bit-types.patch added to -mm tree

On Wed, Sep 23 2015, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> I've sent kabs() before which didn't go in because it didn't work for
> INT_MAX et al
> (don't worry, this abs() doens't as well) but it is nicer that this
> version in other aspects
> (hopefully).
>
> [PATCH v2] Add kabs()
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=133518745522740&w=4

Perhaps:

+	(void)(_x)))))));						\

instead of:

+	_x))))));							\

at the end.  Since kabs makes no sense for unsigned types it’s best to
fail with compile-time error than to let user think that the call is
actually doing something.

Also, you don’t need ({ … }) around the ‘_x < 0 ? -_x : _x’ expression,
do you?

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