linux/tools
Linus Torvalds 1a251f52cf minmax: make generic MIN() and MAX() macros available everywhere
This just standardizes the use of MIN() and MAX() macros, with the very
traditional semantics.  The goal is to use these for C constant
expressions and for top-level / static initializers, and so be able to
simplify the min()/max() macros.

These macro names were used by various kernel code - they are very
traditional, after all - and all such users have been fixed up, with a
few different approaches:

 - trivial duplicated macro definitions have been removed

   Note that 'trivial' here means that it's obviously kernel code that
   already included all the major kernel headers, and thus gets the new
   generic MIN/MAX macros automatically.

 - non-trivial duplicated macro definitions are guarded with #ifndef

   This is the "yes, they define their own versions, but no, the include
   situation is not entirely obvious, and maybe they don't get the
   generic version automatically" case.

 - strange use case #1

   A couple of drivers decided that the way they want to describe their
   versioning is with

	#define MAJ 1
	#define MIN 2
	#define DRV_VERSION __stringify(MAJ) "." __stringify(MIN)

   which adds zero value and I just did my Alexander the Great
   impersonation, and rewrote that pointless Gordian knot as

	#define DRV_VERSION "1.2"

   instead.

 - strange use case #2

   A couple of drivers thought that it's a good idea to have a random
   'MIN' or 'MAX' define for a value or index into a table, rather than
   the traditional macro that takes arguments.

   These values were re-written as C enum's instead. The new
   function-line macros only expand when followed by an open
   parenthesis, and thus don't clash with enum use.

Happily, there weren't really all that many of these cases, and a lot of
users already had the pattern of using '#ifndef' guarding (or in one
case just using '#undef MIN') before defining their own private version
that does the same thing. I left such cases alone.

Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2024-07-28 15:49:18 -07:00
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accounting
arch asm-generic updates for 6.11 2024-07-16 12:09:03 -07:00
bootconfig
bpf tools/resolve_btfids: Fix comparison of distinct pointer types warning in resolve_btfids 2024-07-22 16:35:30 +02:00
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certs
cgroup proc: rewrite stable_page_flags() 2024-04-25 20:56:15 -07:00
counter
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gpio gpio: add sloppy logic analyzer using polling 2024-07-01 10:54:11 +02:00
hv tools: hv: suppress the invalid warning for packed member alignment 2024-05-28 05:27:35 +00:00
iio
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mm tools/mm: introduce a tool to assess swap entry allocation for thp_swapout 2024-07-10 12:14:51 -07:00
net/ynl tools: ynl: use ident name for Family, too. 2024-07-03 19:13:20 -07:00
objtool - 875fa64577 ("mm/hugetlb_vmemmap: fix race with speculative PFN 2024-07-21 17:15:46 -07:00
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perf perf tools fixes for v6.11 2024-07-23 18:15:51 -07:00
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rcu tools/rcu: Add rcu-updaters.sh script 2024-06-06 11:44:42 -07:00
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spi
testing minmax: make generic MIN() and MAX() macros available everywhere 2024-07-28 15:49:18 -07:00
thermal
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tracing perf tools fixes for v6.11 2024-07-23 18:15:51 -07:00
usb
verification tools/verification: Use pkg-config in lib_setup of Makefile.config 2024-07-17 13:14:51 -07:00
virtio tools/virtio: creating pipe assertion in vringh_test 2024-07-04 11:00:31 -04:00
wmi
workqueue
writeback writeback: add wb_monitor.py script to monitor writeback info on bdi 2024-05-05 17:53:51 -07:00
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