Re: [PATCH net RESEND 0/2] overflow-arith: begin to add support for overflow builtins functions
From: David Miller
Date: Fri Oct 23 2015 - 05:33:39 EST
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:32:41 +0200
> I add a new header, linux/overflow-arith.h, as the central place to add
> overflow and wrap-around checking functions. The reason I am doing so
> is that it can make use of compiler supported builtin functions which
> can leverage hardware.
>
> As I need this for a fix in the ipv6 stack, which is also included in
> this series, I propose to add it sooner than later over Davem's net
> tree. This is also the reason why I start slowly with only the one
> function I need at this time.
>
> Thanks for reviewing!
Series applied, thanks Hannes.
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