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Masahiro Yamada
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BIT(), GENMASK(), etc. are useful to define register bits of hardware. However, low-level code is often written in assembly, where they are not available due to the hard-coded 1UL, 0UL. In fact, in-kernel headers such as arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h use _BITUL() instead of BIT() so that the register bit macros are available in assembly. Using macros in include/uapi/linux/const.h have two reasons: [1] For use in uapi headers We should use underscore-prefixed variants for user-space. [2] For use in assembly code Since _BITUL() uses UL(1) instead of 1UL, it can be used as an alternative of BIT(). For [2], it is pretty easy to change BIT() etc. for use in assembly. This allows to replace _BUTUL() in kernel-space headers with BIT(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190609153941.17249-1-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.