From: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@gmail.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] KVM: x86: avoid large stack allocations in em_fxrstor
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 19:10:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170602021014.4sdvqe6mgqa4cq46@lostoracle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <92c4ae48-2356-8ed1-64bd-2adbdb34cdfa@redhat.com>
On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 09:36:18AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 01/06/2017 03:05, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 07:01:29AM -0400, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >>> + size = offsetof(struct fxregs_state, xmm_space[16]);
> >> This still has the same issue (it should be multiplied by 4).
> >
> > I'm still misunderstanding the math here.
> >
> > Why multiplied by four, in this case? 8 * 16 / 4 is used in other cases.
>
> *16/4 is the same as *4. :)
I meant the use of an expression full of literals rather than either a
single literal or an expression formed from well named variables seemed
kind of like a code smell, but w/e. Patch inbound.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-02 2:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-24 6:24 [PATCH] KVM: x86: dynamically allocate large struct in em_fxrstor Nick Desaulniers
2017-05-24 14:19 ` Radim Krčmář
2017-05-25 1:36 ` Nick Desaulniers
2017-05-25 14:07 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-05-26 4:13 ` Nick Desaulniers
2017-05-26 7:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-05-29 19:55 ` [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: avoid large stack allocations " Nick Desaulniers
2017-05-29 20:14 ` kbuild test robot
2017-05-29 20:29 ` Nick Desaulniers
2017-05-29 20:39 ` [PATCH v3] " Nick Desaulniers
2017-05-29 22:40 ` Nick Desaulniers
2017-05-29 22:48 ` [PATCH v4] " Nick Desaulniers
2017-05-30 10:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-05-30 14:05 ` Radim Krčmář
2017-05-31 3:08 ` [PATCH v5] " Nick Desaulniers
2017-05-31 11:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-06-01 1:05 ` Nick Desaulniers
2017-06-01 7:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-06-02 2:10 ` Nick Desaulniers [this message]
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