[PATCH v3 06/19 5.15.y] minmax: add a few more MIN_T/MAX_T users
From: Eliav Farber
Date: Wed Oct 08 2025 - 11:40:17 EST
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 4477b39c32fdc03363affef4b11d48391e6dc9ff ]
Commit 3a7e02c040b1 ("minmax: avoid overly complicated constant
expressions in VM code") added the simpler MIN_T/MAX_T macros in order
to avoid some excessive expansion from the rather complicated regular
min/max macros.
The complexity of those macros stems from two issues:
(a) trying to use them in situations that require a C constant
expression (in static initializers and for array sizes)
(b) the type sanity checking
and MIN_T/MAX_T avoids both of these issues.
Now, in the whole (long) discussion about all this, it was pointed out
that the whole type sanity checking is entirely unnecessary for
min_t/max_t which get a fixed type that the comparison is done in.
But that still leaves min_t/max_t unnecessarily complicated due to
worries about the C constant expression case.
However, it turns out that there really aren't very many cases that use
min_t/max_t for this, and we can just force-convert those.
This does exactly that.
Which in turn will then allow for much simpler implementations of
min_t()/max_t(). All the usual "macros in all upper case will evaluate
the arguments multiple times" rules apply.
We should do all the same things for the regular min/max() vs MIN/MAX()
cases, but that has the added complexity of various drivers defining
their own local versions of MIN/MAX, so that needs another level of
fixes first.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/b47fad1d0cf8449886ad148f8c013dae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eliav Farber <farbere@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
V2 -> V3:
Fix fs/erofs/zdata.h to use MIN_T instead of min_t to fix build on the
following patch:
In file included from ./include/linux/kernel.h:16,
from ./include/linux/list.h:9,
from ./include/linux/wait.h:7,
from ./include/linux/wait_bit.h:8,
from ./include/linux/fs.h:6,
from fs/erofs/internal.h:10,
from fs/erofs/zdata.h:9,
from fs/erofs/zdata.c:6:
fs/erofs/zdata.c: In function ‘z_erofs_decompress_pcluster’:
fs/erofs/zdata.h:185:61: error: ISO C90 forbids variable length array ‘pages_onstack’ [-Werror=vla]
185 | min_t(unsigned int, THREAD_SIZE / 8 / sizeof(struct page *), 96U)
| ^~~~
./include/linux/minmax.h:49:23: note: in definition of macro ‘__cmp_once_unique’
49 | ({ type ux = (x); type uy = (y); __cmp(op, ux, uy); })
| ^
./include/linux/minmax.h:164:27: note: in expansion of macro ‘__cmp_once’
164 | #define min_t(type, x, y) __cmp_once(min, type, x, y)
| ^~~~~~~~~~
fs/erofs/zdata.h:185:9: note: in expansion of macro ‘min_t’
185 | min_t(unsigned int, THREAD_SIZE / 8 / sizeof(struct page *), 96U)
| ^~~~~
fs/erofs/zdata.c:847:36: note: in expansion of macro ‘Z_EROFS_VMAP_ONSTACK_PAGES’
847 | struct page *pages_onstack[Z_EROFS_VMAP_ONSTACK_PAGES];
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
V1 -> V2:
Use `[ Upstream commit <HASH> ]` instead of `commit <HASH> upstream.`
like in all other patches.
arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 2 +-
drivers/edac/sb_edac.c | 4 ++--
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c | 2 +-
drivers/md/dm-integrity.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 2 +-
fs/erofs/zdata.h | 2 +-
net/ipv4/proc.c | 2 +-
net/ipv6/proc.c | 2 +-
8 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index 3481b35cb4ec..e649161eb6fc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static inline void pgd_list_del(pgd_t *pgd)
#define UNSHARED_PTRS_PER_PGD \
(SHARED_KERNEL_PMD ? KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY : PTRS_PER_PGD)
#define MAX_UNSHARED_PTRS_PER_PGD \
- max_t(size_t, KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY, PTRS_PER_PGD)
+ MAX_T(size_t, KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY, PTRS_PER_PGD)
static void pgd_set_mm(pgd_t *pgd, struct mm_struct *mm)
diff --git a/drivers/edac/sb_edac.c b/drivers/edac/sb_edac.c
index 1522d4aa2ca6..714020e7405a 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/sb_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/sb_edac.c
@@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ static const u32 knl_interleave_list[] = {
0x104, 0x10c, 0x114, 0x11c, /* 20-23 */
};
#define MAX_INTERLEAVE \
- (max_t(unsigned int, ARRAY_SIZE(sbridge_interleave_list), \
- max_t(unsigned int, ARRAY_SIZE(ibridge_interleave_list), \
+ (MAX_T(unsigned int, ARRAY_SIZE(sbridge_interleave_list), \
+ MAX_T(unsigned int, ARRAY_SIZE(ibridge_interleave_list), \
ARRAY_SIZE(knl_interleave_list))))
struct interleave_pkg {
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c
index bb14f488c8f6..1ff572d8744e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_color_mgmt.c
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ int drm_plane_create_color_properties(struct drm_plane *plane,
{
struct drm_device *dev = plane->dev;
struct drm_property *prop;
- struct drm_prop_enum_list enum_list[max_t(int, DRM_COLOR_ENCODING_MAX,
+ struct drm_prop_enum_list enum_list[MAX_T(int, DRM_COLOR_ENCODING_MAX,
DRM_COLOR_RANGE_MAX)];
int i, len;
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c b/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c
index e9d553eea9cd..8e2b00536c3e 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c
@@ -2536,7 +2536,7 @@ static void do_journal_write(struct dm_integrity_c *ic, unsigned write_start,
unlikely(from_replay) &&
#endif
ic->internal_hash) {
- char test_tag[max_t(size_t, HASH_MAX_DIGESTSIZE, MAX_TAG_SIZE)];
+ char test_tag[MAX_T(size_t, HASH_MAX_DIGESTSIZE, MAX_TAG_SIZE)];
integrity_sector_checksum(ic, sec + ((l - j) << ic->sb->log2_sectors_per_block),
(char *)access_journal_data(ic, i, l), test_tag);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
index 2478caeec763..21cc8cd9e023 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
@@ -2805,7 +2805,7 @@ static void stmmac_dma_interrupt(struct stmmac_priv *priv)
u32 channels_to_check = tx_channel_count > rx_channel_count ?
tx_channel_count : rx_channel_count;
u32 chan;
- int status[max_t(u32, MTL_MAX_TX_QUEUES, MTL_MAX_RX_QUEUES)];
+ int status[MAX_T(u32, MTL_MAX_TX_QUEUES, MTL_MAX_RX_QUEUES)];
/* Make sure we never check beyond our status buffer. */
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(channels_to_check > ARRAY_SIZE(status)))
diff --git a/fs/erofs/zdata.h b/fs/erofs/zdata.h
index 3a008f1b9f78..43876fd8a2cb 100644
--- a/fs/erofs/zdata.h
+++ b/fs/erofs/zdata.h
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ static inline void z_erofs_onlinepage_endio(struct page *page)
}
#define Z_EROFS_VMAP_ONSTACK_PAGES \
- min_t(unsigned int, THREAD_SIZE / 8 / sizeof(struct page *), 96U)
+ MIN_T(unsigned int, THREAD_SIZE / 8 / sizeof(struct page *), 96U)
#define Z_EROFS_VMAP_GLOBAL_PAGES 2048
#endif
diff --git a/net/ipv4/proc.c b/net/ipv4/proc.c
index 4b9280a3b673..d849f61b7519 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/proc.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/proc.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
#include <net/sock.h>
#include <net/raw.h>
-#define TCPUDP_MIB_MAX max_t(u32, UDP_MIB_MAX, TCP_MIB_MAX)
+#define TCPUDP_MIB_MAX MAX_T(u32, UDP_MIB_MAX, TCP_MIB_MAX)
/*
* Report socket allocation statistics [mea@xxxxxx]
diff --git a/net/ipv6/proc.c b/net/ipv6/proc.c
index d6306aa46bb1..e07c43bd5cb0 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/proc.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/proc.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
#include <net/ipv6.h>
#define MAX4(a, b, c, d) \
- max_t(u32, max_t(u32, a, b), max_t(u32, c, d))
+ MAX_T(u32, MAX_T(u32, a, b), MAX_T(u32, c, d))
#define SNMP_MIB_MAX MAX4(UDP_MIB_MAX, TCP_MIB_MAX, \
IPSTATS_MIB_MAX, ICMP_MIB_MAX)
--
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