x86, cmpxchg: Use __compiletime_error() to make usage messages a bit nicer

Use __compiletime_error() to produce a compile-time error rather than
link-time, where available.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E5BCC40.3030501@goop.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
index 0d0d9cdd3309..5d3acdf5a7a6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
@@ -1,12 +1,19 @@
 #ifndef ASM_X86_CMPXCHG_H
 #define ASM_X86_CMPXCHG_H
 
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <asm/alternative.h> /* Provides LOCK_PREFIX */
 
-/* Non-existant functions to indicate usage errors at link time. */
-extern void __xchg_wrong_size(void);
-extern void __cmpxchg_wrong_size(void);
-extern void __xadd_wrong_size(void);
+/*
+ * Non-existant functions to indicate usage errors at link time
+ * (or compile-time if the compiler implements __compiletime_error().
+ */
+extern void __xchg_wrong_size(void)
+        __compiletime_error("Bad argument size for xchg");
+extern void __cmpxchg_wrong_size(void)
+        __compiletime_error("Bad argument size for cmpxchg");
+extern void __xadd_wrong_size(void)
+        __compiletime_error("Bad argument size for xadd");
 
 /*
  * Constants for operation sizes. On 32-bit, the 64-bit size it set to