lib: Add memcat_p(): paste 2 pointer arrays together

This adds a helper to paste 2 pointer arrays together, useful for merging
various types of attribute arrays. There are a few places in the kernel
tree where this is open coded, and I just added one more in the STM class.

The naming is inspired by memset_p() and memcat(), and partial credit for
it goes to Andy Shevchenko.

This patch adds the function wrapped in a type-enforcing macro and a test
module.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Alexander Shishkin
2018-10-05 15:43:05 +03:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 6c7e4b6882
commit ce76d938dd
5 changed files with 162 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -131,6 +131,13 @@ static inline void *memset_p(void **p, void *v, __kernel_size_t n)
return memset64((uint64_t *)p, (uintptr_t)v, n);
}
extern void **__memcat_p(void **a, void **b);
#define memcat_p(a, b) ({ \
BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(!__same_type(*(a), *(b)), \
"type mismatch in memcat_p()"); \
(typeof(*a) *)__memcat_p((void **)(a), (void **)(b)); \
})
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCPY
extern void * memcpy(void *,const void *,__kernel_size_t);
#endif