linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 1/6] math.h: Introduce data types for fractional numbers

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Message-Id: <20220124172032.87893-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:20:27 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andreas Kemnade <andreas@...nade.info>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/6] math.h: Introduce data types for fractional numbers

Introduce a macro to produce data types like

	struct TYPE_fract {
		__TYPE numerator;
		__TYPE denominator;
	};

to be used in the code wherever it's needed.

In the following changes convert some users to it.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
---

May be pulled via IIO tree.

v3: no changes
v2: no changes

 include/linux/math.h | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/math.h b/include/linux/math.h
index 53674a327e39..439b8f0b9ebd 100644
--- a/include/linux/math.h
+++ b/include/linux/math.h
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #ifndef _LINUX_MATH_H
 #define _LINUX_MATH_H
 
+#include <linux/types.h>
 #include <asm/div64.h>
 #include <uapi/linux/kernel.h>
 
@@ -106,6 +107,17 @@
 }							\
 )
 
+#define __STRUCT_FRACT(type)				\
+struct type##_fract {					\
+	__##type numerator;				\
+	__##type denominator;				\
+};
+__STRUCT_FRACT(s16)
+__STRUCT_FRACT(u16)
+__STRUCT_FRACT(s32)
+__STRUCT_FRACT(u32)
+#undef __STRUCT_FRACT
+
 /*
  * Multiplies an integer by a fraction, while avoiding unnecessary
  * overflow or loss of precision.
-- 
2.34.1