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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-08-29 14:53:51 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-08-29 14:53:51 -0700 |
| commit | d68b4b6f307d155475cce541f2aee938032ed22e (patch) | |
| tree | c2a6487ac8b1bce963b5b352b42e461a6fa8da15 /include/linux/math.h | |
| parent | b96a3e9142fdf346b05b20e867b4f0dfca119e96 (diff) | |
| parent | dce8f8ed1de1d9d6d27c5ccd202ce4ec163b100c (diff) | |
Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder
("refactor Kconfig to consolidate KEXEC and CRASH options")
- kernel.h slimming work from Andy Shevchenko ("kernel.h: Split out a
couple of macros to args.h")
- gdb feature work from Kuan-Ying Lee ("Add GDB memory helper
commands")
- vsprintf inclusion rationalization from Andy Shevchenko
("lib/vsprintf: Rework header inclusions")
- Switch the handling of kdump from a udev scheme to in-kernel
handling, by Eric DeVolder ("crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory
hot un/plug")
- Many singleton patches to various parts of the tree
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (81 commits)
document while_each_thread(), change first_tid() to use for_each_thread()
drivers/char/mem.c: shrink character device's devlist[] array
x86/crash: optimize CPU changes
crash: change crash_prepare_elf64_headers() to for_each_possible_cpu()
crash: hotplug support for kexec_load()
x86/crash: add x86 crash hotplug support
crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes
kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest
crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support
crash: move a few code bits to setup support of crash hotplug
kstrtox: consistently use _tolower()
kill do_each_thread()
nilfs2: fix WARNING in mark_buffer_dirty due to discarded buffer reuse
scripts/bloat-o-meter: count weak symbol sizes
treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED
lockdep: fix static memory detection even more
lib/vsprintf: declare no_hash_pointers in sprintf.h
lib/vsprintf: split out sprintf() and friends
kernel/fork: stop playing lockless games for exe_file replacement
adfs: delete unused "union adfs_dirtail" definition
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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/math.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/math.h | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/math.h b/include/linux/math.h index 2d388650c556..dd4152711de7 100644 --- a/include/linux/math.h +++ b/include/linux/math.h @@ -156,6 +156,25 @@ __STRUCT_FRACT(u32) ({ signed type __x = (x); __x < 0 ? -__x : __x; }), other) /** + * abs_diff - return absolute value of the difference between the arguments + * @a: the first argument + * @b: the second argument + * + * @a and @b have to be of the same type. With this restriction we compare + * signed to signed and unsigned to unsigned. The result is the subtraction + * the smaller of the two from the bigger, hence result is always a positive + * value. + * + * Return: an absolute value of the difference between the @a and @b. + */ +#define abs_diff(a, b) ({ \ + typeof(a) __a = (a); \ + typeof(b) __b = (b); \ + (void)(&__a == &__b); \ + __a > __b ? (__a - __b) : (__b - __a); \ +}) + +/** * reciprocal_scale - "scale" a value into range [0, ep_ro) * @val: value * @ep_ro: right open interval endpoint |