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From: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@develer.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kill div64.h dupes, parenthesize do_div() macro params
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 09:28:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307020928.38830.bernie@develer.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030702071919.GP3040@dualathlon.random>

On Wednesday 02 July 2003 09:19, you wrote:
 > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:52:17AM +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
 > > + *	static inline uint32_t do_div(uint64_t &n, uint32_t base)
 >
 > c++ ;)

 Oops! Shall I send a new patch? ;-)

 > > +# error do_div() does not yet support the C64
 >
 > ;)
 >
 > this new version looks good to me since it will fix bugs and it's not
 > only a cleanup avoiding code duplication. thanks.

 The previous patch was not just a cleanup: it actually added parenthes
that were missing around parameters in many do_div() variants. Guess
what happened when shrink_slab() did this (pages = 0):

   do_div(delta, pages + 1); /* Ouch! */

-- 
  // Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., R&D dept.
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-02  7:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-02  0:32 [PATCH] Kill div64.h dupes, parenthesize do_div() macro params Bernardo Innocenti
     [not found] ` <20030701173612.280d1296.akpm@digeo.com>
2003-07-02  2:24   ` Bernardo Innocenti
2003-07-02  2:32     ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-02  3:15       ` Bernardo Innocenti
2003-07-02  5:12         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-02  7:53         ` Russell King
2003-07-02  8:14           ` Ian Molton
2003-07-02  5:09       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-02  7:02         ` Bernardo Innocenti
2003-07-02  7:54           ` Matti Aarnio
2003-07-02  3:36     ` Peter Chubb
2003-07-02  4:37       ` Bernardo Innocenti
2003-07-02  5:57       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-07-02  6:52         ` Bernardo Innocenti
2003-07-02  7:19           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-07-02  7:28             ` Bernardo Innocenti [this message]
2003-07-02  8:38               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-07-02 16:16           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-03 10:43             ` [PATCH] Fix do_div() for all architectures Bernardo Innocenti
2003-07-02  7:56         ` [PATCH] Kill div64.h dupes, parenthesize do_div() macro params Russell King
2003-07-02  5:06     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-07-02 14:23       ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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