The patch titled ipc: add definitions of USHORT_MAX and others has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ipc-add-definitions-of-ushort_max-and-others.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ipc: add definitions of USHORT_MAX and others From: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Add definitions of USHORT_MAX and others into kernel. ipc uses it and slub implementation might also use it. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@xxxxxxxx> Cc: "Pierre Peiffer" <peifferp@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/kernel.h | 3 +++ ipc/msg.c | 12 ++++++------ ipc/util.c | 4 ++-- ipc/util.h | 1 - 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/kernel.h~ipc-add-definitions-of-ushort_max-and-others include/linux/kernel.h --- a/include/linux/kernel.h~ipc-add-definitions-of-ushort_max-and-others +++ a/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ extern const char linux_banner[]; extern const char linux_proc_banner[]; +#define USHORT_MAX ((u16)(~0U)) +#define SHORT_MAX ((s16)(USHORT_MAX>>1)) +#define SHORT_MIN (-SHORT_MAX - 1) #define INT_MAX ((int)(~0U>>1)) #define INT_MIN (-INT_MAX - 1) #define UINT_MAX (~0U) diff -puN ipc/msg.c~ipc-add-definitions-of-ushort_max-and-others ipc/msg.c --- a/ipc/msg.c~ipc-add-definitions-of-ushort_max-and-others +++ a/ipc/msg.c @@ -346,19 +346,19 @@ copy_msqid_to_user(void __user *buf, str out.msg_rtime = in->msg_rtime; out.msg_ctime = in->msg_ctime; - if (in->msg_cbytes > USHRT_MAX) - out.msg_cbytes = USHRT_MAX; + if (in->msg_cbytes > USHORT_MAX) + out.msg_cbytes = USHORT_MAX; else out.msg_cbytes = in->msg_cbytes; out.msg_lcbytes = in->msg_cbytes; - if (in->msg_qnum > USHRT_MAX) - out.msg_qnum = USHRT_MAX; + if (in->msg_qnum > USHORT_MAX) + out.msg_qnum = USHORT_MAX; else out.msg_qnum = in->msg_qnum; - if (in->msg_qbytes > USHRT_MAX) - out.msg_qbytes = USHRT_MAX; + if (in->msg_qbytes > USHORT_MAX) + out.msg_qbytes = USHORT_MAX; else out.msg_qbytes = in->msg_qbytes; out.msg_lqbytes = in->msg_qbytes; diff -puN ipc/util.c~ipc-add-definitions-of-ushort_max-and-others ipc/util.c --- a/ipc/util.c~ipc-add-definitions-of-ushort_max-and-others +++ a/ipc/util.c @@ -133,8 +133,8 @@ void ipc_init_ids(struct ipc_ids *ids) ids->seq = 0; { int seq_limit = INT_MAX/SEQ_MULTIPLIER; - if(seq_limit > USHRT_MAX) - ids->seq_max = USHRT_MAX; + if(seq_limit > USHORT_MAX) + ids->seq_max = USHORT_MAX; else ids->seq_max = seq_limit; } diff -puN ipc/util.h~ipc-add-definitions-of-ushort_max-and-others ipc/util.h --- a/ipc/util.h~ipc-add-definitions-of-ushort_max-and-others +++ a/ipc/util.h @@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ #include <linux/err.h> -#define USHRT_MAX 0xffff #define SEQ_MULTIPLIER (IPCMNI) void sem_init (void); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from yanmin_zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are ipc-add-definitions-of-ushort_max-and-others.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html