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author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2018-08-21 21:55:28 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-08-22 10:52:46 -0700 |
commit | cedc5b6aab493f6b1b1d381dccc0cc082da7d3d8 (patch) | |
tree | 48966ad9da437b399e663155700de9c0ede26d7b /include/linux/kernel.h | |
parent | 96c6a32ccb55a366054fd82cc63523bb7f7493d3 (diff) | |
download | lwn-cedc5b6aab493f6b1b1d381dccc0cc082da7d3d8.tar.gz lwn-cedc5b6aab493f6b1b1d381dccc0cc082da7d3d8.zip |
kernel.h: documentation for roundup() vs round_up()
Things like 3619dec5103d ("dh key: fix rounding up KDF output length")
expose the lack of explicit documentation for roundup() vs round_up(). At
least we can try to document it better if anyone goes looking.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180703041950.GA43464@beast
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kernel.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kernel.h | 35 |
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index 941dc0a5a877..d6aac75b51ba 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -85,7 +85,23 @@ * arguments just once each. */ #define __round_mask(x, y) ((__typeof__(x))((y)-1)) +/** + * round_up - round up to next specified power of 2 + * @x: the value to round + * @y: multiple to round up to (must be a power of 2) + * + * Rounds @x up to next multiple of @y (which must be a power of 2). + * To perform arbitrary rounding up, use roundup() below. + */ #define round_up(x, y) ((((x)-1) | __round_mask(x, y))+1) +/** + * round_down - round down to next specified power of 2 + * @x: the value to round + * @y: multiple to round down to (must be a power of 2) + * + * Rounds @x down to next multiple of @y (which must be a power of 2). + * To perform arbitrary rounding down, use rounddown() below. + */ #define round_down(x, y) ((x) & ~__round_mask(x, y)) /** @@ -110,13 +126,30 @@ # define DIV_ROUND_UP_SECTOR_T(ll,d) DIV_ROUND_UP(ll,d) #endif -/* The `const' in roundup() prevents gcc-3.3 from calling __divdi3 */ +/** + * roundup - round up to the next specified multiple + * @x: the value to up + * @y: multiple to round up to + * + * Rounds @x up to next multiple of @y. If @y will always be a power + * of 2, consider using the faster round_up(). + * + * The `const' here prevents gcc-3.3 from calling __divdi3 + */ #define roundup(x, y) ( \ { \ const typeof(y) __y = y; \ (((x) + (__y - 1)) / __y) * __y; \ } \ ) +/** + * rounddown - round down to next specified multiple + * @x: the value to round + * @y: multiple to round down to + * + * Rounds @x down to next multiple of @y. If @y will always be a power + * of 2, consider using the faster round_down(). + */ #define rounddown(x, y) ( \ { \ typeof(x) __x = (x); \ |