__UNIQUE_ID()

Jan Beulich points out __COUNTER__ (gcc 4.3 and above), so let's use
that to create unique ids.  This is better than __LINE__ which we use
today, so provide a wrapper.

Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> reported that some module parameters
start with a digit, so we need to prepend when we for the unique id.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
index 412bc6c2b023..56c802cba7f6 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
 
 #define __linktime_error(message) __attribute__((__error__(message)))
 
+#define __UNIQUE_ID(prefix) __PASTE(__PASTE(__UNIQUE_ID_, prefix), __COUNTER__)
+
 #if __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 5
 /*
  * Mark a position in code as unreachable.  This can be used to
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index f430e4162f41..5f45335e1ac7 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ extern void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *);
 # define __rcu
 #endif
 
+/* Indirect macros required for expanded argument pasting, eg. __LINE__. */
+#define ___PASTE(a,b) a##b
+#define __PASTE(a,b) ___PASTE(a,b)
+
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
 #ifdef __GNUC__
@@ -164,6 +168,11 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect);
     (typeof(ptr)) (__ptr + (off)); })
 #endif
 
+/* Not-quite-unique ID. */
+#ifndef __UNIQUE_ID
+# define __UNIQUE_ID(prefix) __PASTE(__PASTE(__UNIQUE_ID_, prefix), __LINE__)
+#endif
+
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */