linux-kernel - [PATCH v8 03/15] linux/kernel.h: Add PTR_ALIGN

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Message-ID: <20200722110317.4744-4-kishon@ti.com>
Date:   Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:33:05 +0530
From:   Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>
To:     Tom Joseph <tjoseph@...ence.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>, <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: [PATCH v8 03/15] linux/kernel.h: Add PTR_ALIGN_DOWN macro

Add a macro for aligning down a pointer. This is useful to get an
aligned register address when a device allows only word access and
doesn't allow half word or byte access.

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>
---
 include/linux/kernel.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 82d91547d122..7339a00c895e 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 #define ALIGN_DOWN(x, a)	__ALIGN_KERNEL((x) - ((a) - 1), (a))
 #define __ALIGN_MASK(x, mask)	__ALIGN_KERNEL_MASK((x), (mask))
 #define PTR_ALIGN(p, a)		((typeof(p))ALIGN((unsigned long)(p), (a)))
+#define PTR_ALIGN_DOWN(p, a)	((typeof(p))ALIGN_DOWN((unsigned long)(p), (a)))
 #define IS_ALIGNED(x, a)		(((x) & ((typeof(x))(a) - 1)) == 0)
 
 /* generic data direction definitions */
-- 
2.17.1