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Subject[PATCH 3/8] tools: Add err.h with ERR_PTR PTR_ERR interface
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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>

Adding part of the kernel's <linux/err.h> interface:

inline void * __must_check ERR_PTR(long error);
inline long __must_check PTR_ERR(__force const void *ptr);
inline bool __must_check IS_ERR(__force const void *ptr);

It will be used to propagate error through pointers in following
patches.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Raphael Beamonte <raphael.beamonte@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441615087-13886-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
tools/include/linux/err.h | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 49 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 tools/include/linux/err.h

diff --git a/tools/include/linux/err.h b/tools/include/linux/err.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c9ada48f5156
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/include/linux/err.h
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#ifndef __TOOLS_LINUX_ERR_H
+#define __TOOLS_LINUX_ERR_H
+
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+#include <asm/errno.h>
+
+/*
+ * Original kernel header comment:
+ *
+ * Kernel pointers have redundant information, so we can use a
+ * scheme where we can return either an error code or a normal
+ * pointer with the same return value.
+ *
+ * This should be a per-architecture thing, to allow different
+ * error and pointer decisions.
+ *
+ * Userspace note:
+ * The same principle works for userspace, because 'error' pointers
+ * fall down to the unused hole far from user space, as described
+ * in Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt for x86_64 arch:
+ *
+ * 0000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47 bits) user space, different per mm hole caused by [48:63] sign extension
+ * ffffffffffe00000 - ffffffffffffffff (=2 MB) unused hole
+ *
+ * It should be the same case for other architectures, because
+ * this code is used in generic kernel code.
+ */
+#define MAX_ERRNO 4095
+
+#define IS_ERR_VALUE(x) unlikely((x) >= (unsigned long)-MAX_ERRNO)
+
+static inline void * __must_check ERR_PTR(long error)
+{
+ return (void *) error;
+}
+
+static inline long __must_check PTR_ERR(__force const void *ptr)
+{
+ return (long) ptr;
+}
+
+static inline bool __must_check IS_ERR(__force const void *ptr)
+{
+ return IS_ERR_VALUE((unsigned long)ptr);
+}
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_ERR_H */
--
2.1.0


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