kernel-ark/include/linux/err.h
Randy Dunlap ebba5f9fcb [PATCH] consistently use MAX_ERRNO in __syscall_return
Consistently use MAX_ERRNO when checking for errors in __syscall_return().

[ralf@linux-mips.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00

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#ifndef _LINUX_ERR_H
#define _LINUX_ERR_H
#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <asm/errno.h>
/*
* Kernel pointers have redundant information, so we can use a
* scheme where we can return either an error code or a dentry
* pointer with the same return value.
*
* This should be a per-architecture thing, to allow different
* error and pointer decisions.
*/
#define MAX_ERRNO 4095
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
#define IS_ERR_VALUE(x) unlikely((x) >= (unsigned long)-MAX_ERRNO)
static inline void *ERR_PTR(long error)
{
return (void *) error;
}
static inline long PTR_ERR(const void *ptr)
{
return (long) ptr;
}
static inline long IS_ERR(const void *ptr)
{
return IS_ERR_VALUE((unsigned long)ptr);
}
#endif
#endif /* _LINUX_ERR_H */