This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
minmax.h: move all the clamp() definitions after the min/max() ones
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
minmax.h-move-all-the-clamp-definitions-after-the-min-max-ones.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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From: Eliav Farber <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2025 12:15:18 +0000
Subject: minmax.h: move all the clamp() definitions after the min/max() ones
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Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>, Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>,
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From: David Laight <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit c3939872ee4a6b8bdcd0e813c66823b31e6e26f7 ]
At some point the definitions for clamp() got added in the middle of the
ones for min() and max(). Re-order the definitions so they are more
sensibly grouped.
Link:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: David Laight <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eliav Farber <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
include/linux/minmax.h | 109 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/minmax.h
+++ b/include/linux/minmax.h
@@ -99,22 +99,6 @@
#define __careful_cmp(op, x, y) \
__careful_cmp_once(op, x, y, __UNIQUE_ID(x_), __UNIQUE_ID(y_))
-#define __clamp(val, lo, hi) \
- ((val) >= (hi) ? (hi) : ((val) <= (lo) ? (lo) : (val)))
-
-#define __clamp_once(val, lo, hi, uval, ulo, uhi) ({
\
- __auto_type uval = (val);
\
- __auto_type ulo = (lo);
\
- __auto_type uhi = (hi);
\
- BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(statically_true(ulo > uhi),
\
- "clamp() low limit " #lo " greater than high limit " #hi);
\
- BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(!__types_ok3(uval, ulo, uhi),
\
- "clamp("#val", "#lo", "#hi") signedness error");
\
- __clamp(uval, ulo, uhi); })
-
-#define __careful_clamp(val, lo, hi) \
- __clamp_once(val, lo, hi, __UNIQUE_ID(v_), __UNIQUE_ID(l_),
__UNIQUE_ID(h_))
-
/**
* min - return minimum of two values of the same or compatible types
* @x: first value
@@ -171,6 +155,22 @@
__careful_op3(max, x, y, z, __UNIQUE_ID(x_), __UNIQUE_ID(y_),
__UNIQUE_ID(z_))
/**
+ * min_t - return minimum of two values, using the specified type
+ * @type: data type to use
+ * @x: first value
+ * @y: second value
+ */
+#define min_t(type, x, y) __cmp_once(min, type, x, y)
+
+/**
+ * max_t - return maximum of two values, using the specified type
+ * @type: data type to use
+ * @x: first value
+ * @y: second value
+ */
+#define max_t(type, x, y) __cmp_once(max, type, x, y)
+
+/**
* min_not_zero - return the minimum that is _not_ zero, unless both are zero
* @x: value1
* @y: value2
@@ -180,6 +180,22 @@
typeof(y) __y = (y); \
__x == 0 ? __y : ((__y == 0) ? __x : min(__x, __y)); })
+#define __clamp(val, lo, hi) \
+ ((val) >= (hi) ? (hi) : ((val) <= (lo) ? (lo) : (val)))
+
+#define __clamp_once(val, lo, hi, uval, ulo, uhi) ({
\
+ __auto_type uval = (val);
\
+ __auto_type ulo = (lo);
\
+ __auto_type uhi = (hi);
\
+ BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(statically_true(ulo > uhi),
\
+ "clamp() low limit " #lo " greater than high limit " #hi);
\
+ BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(!__types_ok3(uval, ulo, uhi),
\
+ "clamp("#val", "#lo", "#hi") signedness error");
\
+ __clamp(uval, ulo, uhi); })
+
+#define __careful_clamp(val, lo, hi) \
+ __clamp_once(val, lo, hi, __UNIQUE_ID(v_), __UNIQUE_ID(l_),
__UNIQUE_ID(h_))
+
/**
* clamp - return a value clamped to a given range with strict typechecking
* @val: current value
@@ -191,28 +207,30 @@
*/
#define clamp(val, lo, hi) __careful_clamp(val, lo, hi)
-/*
- * ..and if you can't take the strict
- * types, you can specify one yourself.
- *
- * Or not use min/max/clamp at all, of course.
- */
-
/**
- * min_t - return minimum of two values, using the specified type
- * @type: data type to use
- * @x: first value
- * @y: second value
+ * clamp_t - return a value clamped to a given range using a given type
+ * @type: the type of variable to use
+ * @val: current value
+ * @lo: minimum allowable value
+ * @hi: maximum allowable value
+ *
+ * This macro does no typechecking and uses temporary variables of type
+ * @type to make all the comparisons.
*/
-#define min_t(type, x, y) __cmp_once(min, type, x, y)
+#define clamp_t(type, val, lo, hi) __careful_clamp((type)(val), (type)(lo),
(type)(hi))
/**
- * max_t - return maximum of two values, using the specified type
- * @type: data type to use
- * @x: first value
- * @y: second value
+ * clamp_val - return a value clamped to a given range using val's type
+ * @val: current value
+ * @lo: minimum allowable value
+ * @hi: maximum allowable value
+ *
+ * This macro does no typechecking and uses temporary variables of whatever
+ * type the input argument @val is. This is useful when @val is an unsigned
+ * type and @lo and @hi are literals that will otherwise be assigned a signed
+ * integer type.
*/
-#define max_t(type, x, y) __cmp_once(max, type, x, y)
+#define clamp_val(val, lo, hi) clamp_t(typeof(val), val, lo, hi)
/*
* Do not check the array parameter using __must_be_array().
@@ -257,31 +275,6 @@
*/
#define max_array(array, len) __minmax_array(max, array, len)
-/**
- * clamp_t - return a value clamped to a given range using a given type
- * @type: the type of variable to use
- * @val: current value
- * @lo: minimum allowable value
- * @hi: maximum allowable value
- *
- * This macro does no typechecking and uses temporary variables of type
- * @type to make all the comparisons.
- */
-#define clamp_t(type, val, lo, hi) __careful_clamp((type)(val), (type)(lo),
(type)(hi))
-
-/**
- * clamp_val - return a value clamped to a given range using val's type
- * @val: current value
- * @lo: minimum allowable value
- * @hi: maximum allowable value
- *
- * This macro does no typechecking and uses temporary variables of whatever
- * type the input argument @val is. This is useful when @val is an unsigned
- * type and @lo and @hi are literals that will otherwise be assigned a signed
- * integer type.
- */
-#define clamp_val(val, lo, hi) clamp_t(typeof(val), val, lo, hi)
-
static inline bool in_range64(u64 val, u64 start, u64 len)
{
return (val - start) < len;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-6.1/minmax-improve-macro-expansion-and-type-checking.patch
queue-6.1/minmax.h-simplify-the-variants-of-clamp.patch
queue-6.1/minmax.h-move-all-the-clamp-definitions-after-the-min-max-ones.patch
queue-6.1/minmax-don-t-use-max-in-situations-that-want-a-c-constant-expression.patch
queue-6.1/minmax.h-remove-some-defines-that-are-only-expanded-once.patch
queue-6.1/minmax.h-use-build_bug_on_msg-for-the-lo-hi-test-in-clamp.patch
queue-6.1/minmax-simplify-min-max-clamp-implementation.patch
queue-6.1/minmax.h-add-whitespace-around-operators-and-after-commas.patch
queue-6.1/minmax-fix-up-min3-and-max3-too.patch
queue-6.1/minmax.h-reduce-the-define-expansion-of-min-max-and-clamp.patch
queue-6.1/minmax.h-update-some-comments.patch
