Re: [PATCH net RESEND 0/2] overflow-arith: begin to add support for overflow builtins functions

2015-10-23 Thread David Miller
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:32:41 +0200 > I add a new header, linux/overflow-arith.h, as the central place to add > overflow and wrap-around checking functions. The reason I am doing so > is that it can make use of compiler supported builtin functions which > can leverage

[PATCH net RESEND 0/2] overflow-arith: begin to add support for overflow builtins functions

2015-10-16 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
Hello, I add a new header, linux/overflow-arith.h, as the central place to add overflow and wrap-around checking functions. The reason I am doing so is that it can make use of compiler supported builtin functions which can leverage hardware. As I need this for a fix in the ipv6 stack, which is al