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From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
To: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/24] selftests/resctrl: Make span unsigned long everywhere
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 18:05:50 +0300 (EEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6585df2-6b55-b1da-483-7c2e3356e6bf@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a61c92-01bf-0ac3-709d-7ba2ed0259b2@intel.com>

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On Fri, 21 Apr 2023, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> On 4/18/2023 4:44 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > fill_buf(), show_bw_info(), and resctrl_val_param.span define span as
> > unsigned long.
> 
> There is no fill_buf() in the code and show_bw_info() does
> not define span as unsigned long (it is even the first function
> changed in this patch).

Shuffling a large number of patches around seems detrimental for the 
quality of the commit messages no matter how hard I try to maintain them 
up to date. Thanks for noticing this.

> > Consistently use unsigned long elsewhere too for span parameters.
> 
> Is unsigned long the right type to use? Tracing through all the
> indirections I do not see how making all usages unsigned long
> achieves consistency ... have you considered size_t?

I'll change to size_t as it refers to the size of the memory block.

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 i.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-24 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-18 11:44 [PATCH v2 00/24] selftests/resctrl: Fixes, cleanups, and rewritten CAT test Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-18 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 01/24] selftests/resctrl: Add resctrl.h into build deps Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-22  0:07   ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-18 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 02/24] selftests/resctrl: Check also too low values for CBM bits Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-22  0:08   ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-24 10:46     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-18 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 03/24] selftests/resctrl: Move resctrl FS mount/umount to higher level Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-22  0:09   ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-24 14:58     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-18 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 04/24] selftests/resctrl: Remove mum_resctrlfs Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-22  0:11   ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-24 14:55     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-18 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 05/24] selftests/resctrl: Make span unsigned long everywhere Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-22  0:12   ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-24 15:05     ` Ilpo Järvinen [this message]
2023-04-18 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 06/24] selftests/resctrl: Express span in bytes Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-22  0:12   ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-24 15:31     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-18 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 07/24] selftests/resctrl: Remove duplicated preparation for span arg Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-22  0:14   ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-24 15:41     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-18 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 08/24] selftests/resctrl: Don't use variable argument list for ->setup() Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-18 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 09/24] selftests/resctrl: Remove "malloc_and_init_memory" param from run_fill_buf() Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-18 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 10/24] selftests/resctrl: Split run_fill_buf() to alloc, work, and dealloc helpers Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-22  0:16   ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-24 16:01     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-24 16:32       ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-18 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 11/24] selftests/resctrl: Remove start_buf local variable from buffer alloc func Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-22  0:16   ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-18 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 12/24] selftests/resctrl: Don't pass test name to fill_buf Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-18 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 13/24] selftests/resctrl: Add flush_buffer() " Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-22  0:16   ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-18 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 14/24] selftests/resctrl: Remove test type checks from cat_val() Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-18 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 15/24] selftests/resctrl: Refactor get_cbm_mask() Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-22  0:17   ` Reinette Chatre
2023-05-31  6:03   ` Shaopeng Tan (Fujitsu)
2023-05-31  9:24     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-18 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 16/24] selftests/resctrl: Create cache_alloc_size() helper Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-22  0:19   ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-24 16:28     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-24 16:45       ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-18 11:44 ` [PATCH v2 17/24] selftests/resctrl: Replace count_bits with count_consecutive_bits() Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-22  0:20   ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-25 11:41     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-25 14:28       ` Reinette Chatre
2023-05-31  7:25   ` Shaopeng Tan (Fujitsu)
2023-05-31  9:35     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2023-06-01  6:20       ` Shaopeng Tan (Fujitsu)
2023-04-18 11:45 ` [PATCH v2 18/24] selftests/resctrl: Exclude shareable bits from schemata in CAT test Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-18 11:45 ` [PATCH v2 19/24] selftests/resctrl: Pass the real number of tests to show_cache_info() Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-22  0:20   ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-18 11:45 ` [PATCH v2 20/24] selftests/resctrl: Move CAT/CMT test global vars to func they are used Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-22  0:20   ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-18 11:45 ` [PATCH v2 21/24] selftests/resctrl: Read in less obvious order to defeat prefetch optimizations Ilpo Järvinen
2023-05-31  5:33   ` Shaopeng Tan (Fujitsu)
2023-05-31  9:17     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2023-06-01  6:15       ` Shaopeng Tan (Fujitsu)
2023-06-02 13:51         ` Ilpo Järvinen
2023-06-02 14:39           ` Reinette Chatre
2023-06-14 13:02         ` Ilpo Järvinen
2023-06-16  5:30           ` Shaopeng Tan (Fujitsu)
2023-06-16  6:44             ` Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-18 11:45 ` [PATCH v2 22/24] selftests/resctrl: Split measure_cache_vals() function Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-22  0:21   ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-18 11:45 ` [PATCH v2 23/24] selftests/resctrl: Split show_cache_info() to test specific and generic parts Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-22  0:22   ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-18 11:45 ` [PATCH v2 24/24] selftests/resctrl: Rewrite Cache Allocation Technology (CAT) test Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-22  0:32   ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-26 13:58     ` Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-26 23:35       ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-27  8:04         ` Ilpo Järvinen
2023-04-27 15:15           ` Reinette Chatre

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