From ff90af6c73883121358251bba66245ff4da3755c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 00:36:01 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] typecheck: import include/linux/typecheck.h from Linux 4.9

Copied from Linux 4.9.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
---
 include/linux/typecheck.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 include/linux/typecheck.h

diff --git a/include/linux/typecheck.h b/include/linux/typecheck.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..eb5b74a575
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/typecheck.h
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#ifndef TYPECHECK_H_INCLUDED
+#define TYPECHECK_H_INCLUDED
+
+/*
+ * Check at compile time that something is of a particular type.
+ * Always evaluates to 1 so you may use it easily in comparisons.
+ */
+#define typecheck(type,x) \
+({	type __dummy; \
+	typeof(x) __dummy2; \
+	(void)(&__dummy == &__dummy2); \
+	1; \
+})
+
+/*
+ * Check at compile time that 'function' is a certain type, or is a pointer
+ * to that type (needs to use typedef for the function type.)
+ */
+#define typecheck_fn(type,function) \
+({	typeof(type) __tmp = function; \
+	(void)__tmp; \
+})
+
+#endif		/* TYPECHECK_H_INCLUDED */
-- 
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