staging: erofs: <linux/tagptr.h>: introduce tagged pointer
Currently kernel has scattered tagged pointer usages hacked by hand in plain code, without a unique and portable functionset to highlight the tagged pointer itself and wrap these hacked code in order to clean up all over meaningless magic masks. Therefore, this patch introduces simple generic methods to fold tags into a pointer integer. It currently supports the last n bits of the pointer for tags, which can be selected by users. In addition, it will also be used for the upcoming EROFS filesystem, which heavily uses tagged pointer approach for high performance and reducing extra memory allocation. Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_pointerSigned-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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