kbuild: create a way to create preprocessor constants from C expressions

The use of enums create constants that are not available to the preprocessor
when building the kernel (f.e.  MAX_NR_ZONES).

Arch code already has a way to export constants calculated to the preprocessor
through the asm-offsets.c file.  Generate something similar for the core
kernel through kbuild.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/bounds.c b/kernel/bounds.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..85bb281858cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel/bounds.c
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+/*
+ * Generate definitions needed by the preprocessor.
+ * This code generates raw asm output which is post-processed
+ * to extract and format the required data.
+ */
+
+#define __GENERATING_BOUNDS_H
+/* Include headers that define the enum constants of interest */
+
+#define DEFINE(sym, val) \
+        asm volatile("\n->" #sym " %0 " #val : : "i" (val))
+
+#define BLANK() asm volatile("\n->" : : )
+
+void foo(void)
+{
+        /* The enum constants to put into include/linux/bounds.h */
+        /* End of constants */
+}