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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kernel.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kernel.h | 19 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index d0fbc043de60..57dac7022b63 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -143,9 +143,22 @@ extern int _cond_resched(void); #define might_sleep_if(cond) do { if (cond) might_sleep(); } while (0) -#define abs(x) ({ \ - long __x = (x); \ - (__x < 0) ? -__x : __x; \ +/* + * abs() handles unsigned and signed longs, ints, shorts and chars. For all + * input types abs() returns a signed long. + * abs() should not be used for 64-bit types (s64, u64, long long) - use abs64() + * for those. + */ +#define abs(x) ({ \ + long ret; \ + if (sizeof(x) == sizeof(long)) { \ + long __x = (x); \ + ret = (__x < 0) ? -__x : __x; \ + } else { \ + int __x = (x); \ + ret = (__x < 0) ? -__x : __x; \ + } \ + ret; \ }) #define abs64(x) ({ \ |