[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "kernel.h: define u8, s8, u32, etc. limits" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    kernel.h: define u8, s8, u32, etc. limits

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.20.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 4a7625f2e67282ee6384b08c806ebecb7173a567 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Elder <alex.elder at linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:54:00 -0800
Subject: kernel.h: define u8, s8, u32, etc. limits

commit 89a0714106aac7309c7dfa0f004b39e1e89d2942 upstream.

Create constants that define the maximum and minimum values
representable by the kernel types u8, s8, u16, s16, and so on.

Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder at linaro.org>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage at inktank.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
[ kamal: 3.8 stable for backport convenience ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 include/linux/kernel.h | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index c566927..8a7a12b 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -29,6 +29,19 @@
 #define ULLONG_MAX	(~0ULL)
 #define SIZE_MAX	(~(size_t)0)

+#define U8_MAX		((u8)~0U)
+#define S8_MAX		((s8)(U8_MAX>>1))
+#define S8_MIN		((s8)(-S8_MAX - 1))
+#define U16_MAX		((u16)~0U)
+#define S16_MAX		((s16)(U16_MAX>>1))
+#define S16_MIN		((s16)(-S16_MAX - 1))
+#define U32_MAX		((u32)~0U)
+#define S32_MAX		((s32)(U32_MAX>>1))
+#define S32_MIN		((s32)(-S32_MAX - 1))
+#define U64_MAX		((u64)~0ULL)
+#define S64_MAX		((s64)(U64_MAX>>1))
+#define S64_MIN		((s64)(-S64_MAX - 1))
+
 #define STACK_MAGIC	0xdeadbeef

 #define REPEAT_BYTE(x)	((~0ul / 0xff) * (x))
--
1.8.3.2