linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/2] cpumask: Add helper cpumask

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Date:   Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:20:29 -0700
From:   Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Grant Grundler <grundler@...omium.org>,
        Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>,
        Michael Davidson <md@...gle.com>,
        Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] cpumask: Add helper cpumask_available()

With CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y cpumask_var_t is a struct cpumask
pointer, otherwise a struct cpumask array with a single element.

Some code dealing with cpumasks needs to validate that a cpumask_var_t
is not a NULL pointer when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y. This is typically
done by performing the check always, regardless of the underlying type
of cpumask_var_t. This works in both cases, however clang raises a
warning like this when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=n:

kernel/irq/manage.c:839:28: error: address of array
'desc->irq_common_data.affinity' will always evaluate to 'true'
[-Werror,-Wpointer-bool-conversion]

Add the inline helper cpumask_available() which only performs the
pointer check if CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
---
Changes in v2:
- Patch added

 include/linux/cpumask.h | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/cpumask.h b/include/linux/cpumask.h
index 96f1e88b767c..1a675604b17d 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpumask.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpumask.h
@@ -667,6 +667,11 @@ void alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t *mask);
 void free_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t mask);
 void free_bootmem_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t mask);
 
+static inline bool cpumask_available(cpumask_var_t mask)
+{
+	return mask != NULL;
+}
+
 #else
 typedef struct cpumask cpumask_var_t[1];
 
@@ -708,6 +713,11 @@ static inline void free_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t mask)
 static inline void free_bootmem_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t mask)
 {
 }
+
+static inline bool cpumask_available(cpumask_var_t mask)
+{
+	return true;
+}
 #endif /* CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK */
 
 /* It's common to want to use cpu_all_mask in struct member initializers,
-- 
2.12.2.715.g7642488e1d-goog