Subject: [RFC PATCH 05/30] linux/kernel.h: Add PTR_ALIGN_DOWN macro

From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 18:44:51 +0530

Add a macro for aligning down a pointer. This is useful to get an
aligned register address when a device allows only word access and
doesn't allow half word or byte access.

Signed-off-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <[email-masked]>
---
 include/linux/kernel.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 74b1ee9027f5..f5be987f1f95 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 #define ALIGN_DOWN(x, a)	__ALIGN_KERNEL((x) - ((a) - 1), (a))
 #define __ALIGN_MASK(x, mask)	__ALIGN_KERNEL_MASK((x), (mask))
 #define PTR_ALIGN(p, a)		((typeof(p))ALIGN((unsigned long)(p), (a)))
+#define PTR_ALIGN_DOWN(p, a)	((typeof(p))ALIGN_DOWN((unsigned long)(p), (a)))
 #define IS_ALIGNED(x, a)		(((x) & ((typeof(x))(a) - 1)) == 0)
 
 /* generic data direction definitions */
-- 
2.17.1

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