kernel.h: add BUILD_BUG() macro

We can place this in definitions that we expect the compiler to remove by
dead code elimination.  If this assertion fails, we get a nice error
message at build time.

The GCC function attribute error("message") was added in version 4.3, so
we define a new macro __linktime_error(message) to expand to this for
GCC-4.3 and later.  This will give us an error diagnostic from the
compiler on the line that fails.  For other compilers
__linktime_error(message) expands to nothing, and we have to be content
with a link time error, but at least we will still get a build error.

BUILD_BUG() expands to the undefined function __build_bug_failed() and
will fail at link time if the compiler ever emits code for it.  On GCC-4.3
and later, attribute((error())) is used so that the failure will be noted
at compile time instead.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: DM <dm.n9107@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index e8b1597..f48e8a5 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -665,6 +665,7 @@ static inline void ftrace_dump(enum ftrace_dump_mode oops_dump_mode) { }
 #define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) (0)
 #define BUILD_BUG_ON_NULL(e) ((void*)0)
 #define BUILD_BUG_ON(condition)
+#define BUILD_BUG() (0)
 #else /* __CHECKER__ */
 
 /* Force a compilation error if a constant expression is not a power of 2 */
@@ -703,6 +704,21 @@ extern int __build_bug_on_failed;
 		if (condition) __build_bug_on_failed = 1;	\
 	} while(0)
 #endif
+
+/**
+ * BUILD_BUG - break compile if used.
+ *
+ * If you have some code that you expect the compiler to eliminate at
+ * build time, you should use BUILD_BUG to detect if it is
+ * unexpectedly used.
+ */
+#define BUILD_BUG()						\
+	do {							\
+		extern void __build_bug_failed(void)		\
+			__linktime_error("BUILD_BUG failed");	\
+		__build_bug_failed();				\
+	} while (0)
+
 #endif	/* __CHECKER__ */
 
 /* Trap pasters of __FUNCTION__ at compile-time */