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[v4,02/14] linux/kernel.h: Add PTR_ALIGN_DOWN macro

Message ID 20200506151429.12255-3-kishon@ti.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Add PCIe support to TI's J721E SoC | expand

Commit Message

Kishon Vijay Abraham I May 6, 2020, 3:14 p.m. UTC 
Add a macro for aligning down a pointer. This is useful to get an
aligned register address when a device allows only word access and
doesn't allow half word or byte access.

Signed-off-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>
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 include/linux/kernel.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Comments

Rob Herring (Arm) May 20, 2020, 9 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Wed, 6 May 2020 20:44:17 +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> Add a macro for aligning down a pointer. This is useful to get an
> aligned register address when a device allows only word access and
> doesn't allow half word or byte access.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/kernel.h | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 9b7a8d74a9d6..c3b361b5be54 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ 
 #define ALIGN_DOWN(x, a)	__ALIGN_KERNEL((x) - ((a) - 1), (a))
 #define __ALIGN_MASK(x, mask)	__ALIGN_KERNEL_MASK((x), (mask))
 #define PTR_ALIGN(p, a)		((typeof(p))ALIGN((unsigned long)(p), (a)))
+#define PTR_ALIGN_DOWN(p, a)	((typeof(p))ALIGN_DOWN((unsigned long)(p), (a)))
 #define IS_ALIGNED(x, a)		(((x) & ((typeof(x))(a) - 1)) == 0)
 
 /* generic data direction definitions */