compiler.h: add support for function attribute assume_aligned

gcc 4.9 added the function attribute assume_aligned, indicating to the
caller that the returned pointer may be assumed to have a certain minimal
alignment.  This is useful if, for example, the return value is passed to
memset().  Add a shorthand macro for that.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
index 8efb40e61d6e..02fa6176120d 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -210,6 +210,23 @@
 #define __visible	__attribute__((externally_visible))
 #endif
 
+
+#if GCC_VERSION >= 40900
+/*
+ * __assume_aligned(n, k): Tell the optimizer that the returned
+ * pointer can be assumed to be k modulo n. The second argument is
+ * optional (default 0), so we use a variadic macro to make the
+ * shorthand.
+ *
+ * Beware: Do not apply this to functions which may return
+ * ERR_PTRs. Also, it is probably unwise to apply it to functions
+ * returning extra information in the low bits (but in that case the
+ * compiler should see some alignment anyway, when the return value is
+ * massaged by 'flags = ptr & 3; ptr &= ~3;').
+ */
+#define __assume_aligned(a, ...) __attribute__((__assume_aligned__(a, ## __VA_ARGS__)))
+#endif
+
 /*
  * GCC 'asm goto' miscompiles certain code sequences:
  *