Turn some macros into inline functions and add proper type checking as
well as being more readable.  Also a minor comment adjustment.
Signed-off-by: NNicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>