From cc8ef6eb21e964b1c5eb97b2d0e8ac9893e1bf86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roland Dreier Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:01:22 -0800 Subject: kernel.h: add BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2() Add BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2() When code relies on a constant being a power of 2: #define FOO 512 /* must be a power of 2 */ it would be nice to be able to do: BUILD_BUG_ON(!is_power_of_2(FOO)); However applying an inline function does not result in a compile-time constant that can be used with BUILD_BUG_ON(), so trying that gives results in: error: bit-field '' width not an integer constant As suggested by akpm, rather than monkeying around with is_power_of_2() and risking gcc warts about constant expressions, just create a macro BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2() to encapsulate this common requirement. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier Cc: Bart Van Assche Cc: David Dillow Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/kernel.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index 3fc9f5aab5f..328bca609b9 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -734,6 +734,10 @@ struct sysinfo { /* Force a compilation error if condition is constant and true */ #define MAYBE_BUILD_BUG_ON(cond) ((void)sizeof(char[1 - 2 * !!(cond)])) +/* Force a compilation error if a constant expression is not a power of 2 */ +#define BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2(n) \ + BUILD_BUG_ON((n) == 0 || (((n) & ((n) - 1)) != 0)) + /* Force a compilation error if condition is true, but also produce a result (of value 0 and type size_t), so the expression can be used e.g. in a structure initializer (or where-ever else comma expressions -- cgit v1.2.3