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* [Linux-eng] [RFC 0/3] Abstract empty functions with STUB_UNLESS macro
@ 2019-01-18 16:00 Andrew Murray
  2019-01-18 16:00 ` [PATCH 1/3] kconfig.h: abstract " Andrew Murray
                   ` (4 more replies)
  0 siblings, 5 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Murray @ 2019-01-18 16:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Masahiro Yamada, Arnd Bergmann, Kees Cook, Andrew Morton
  Cc: rjw, Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, linux-kernel, Steven Price,
	Grant Likely, Dave P Martin, linux-arm-kernel

A common pattern found in header files is a function declaration dependent
on a CONFIG_ option being enabled, followed by an empty function for when
that option isn't enabled. This boilerplate code can often take up a lot
of space and impact code readability.

This series introduces a STUB_UNLESS macro that simplifies header files as
follows:

STUB_UNLESS(CONFIG_FOO, [body], prototype)

This evaluates to 'prototype' prepended with 'extern' if CONFIG_FOO is set
to 'y'. Otherwise it will evaluate to 'prototype' prepended with 'static
inline' followed by an empty function body. Where optional argument 'body'
is present then 'body' will be used as the function body, intended to allow
simple return statements. Using the macro results in hunks such as this:

-#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
-extern void hw_breakpoint_thread_switch(struct task_struct *next);
-extern void ptrace_hw_copy_thread(struct task_struct *task);
-#else
-static inline void hw_breakpoint_thread_switch(struct task_struct *next)
-{
-}
-static inline void ptrace_hw_copy_thread(struct task_struct *task)
-{
-}
-#endif
+STUB_UNLESS(CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT,
+void hw_breakpoint_thread_switch(struct task_struct *next));
+
+STUB_UNLESS(CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT,
+void ptrace_hw_copy_thread(struct task_struct *task));

This may or may not be considered as more desirable than the status quo.

This series updates arm64 and perf to use the macro as an example.

Andrew Murray (3):
  kconfig.h: abstract empty functions with STUB_UNLESS macro
  cpufreq: update headers to use STUB_UNLESS macro
  arm64: update headers to use STUB_UNLESS macro

 arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h           | 38 +++++++++-------------
 arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h    |  6 +---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h     |  6 +---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/cpuidle.h        | 18 +++--------
 arch/arm64/include/asm/debug-monitors.h | 10 ++----
 arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h         | 57 +++++++++++++--------------------
 arch/arm64/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h  | 16 +++------
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kasan.h          |  9 ++----
 arch/arm64/include/asm/numa.h           | 19 ++++-------
 arch/arm64/include/asm/ptdump.h         | 13 +++-----
 arch/arm64/include/asm/signal32.h       | 29 +++++------------
 include/linux/cpufreq.h                 | 21 ++++--------
 include/linux/kconfig.h                 | 31 ++++++++++++++++++
 13 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 163 deletions(-)

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2019-01-18 16:00 ` [PATCH 1/3] kconfig.h: abstract " Andrew Murray
2019-01-18 16:27   ` Steven Price
2019-01-18 16:00 ` [PATCH 2/3] cpufreq: update headers to use " Andrew Murray
2019-01-18 16:29   ` Steven Price
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2019-01-18 16:46   ` Steven Price
2019-01-18 16:37 ` [Linux-eng] [RFC 0/3] Abstract empty functions with " Russell King - ARM Linux admin
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2019-01-18 17:01     ` Andrew Murray
2019-01-19  3:44 ` Masahiro Yamada

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