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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Michael Ellerman" <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	"Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xive: fix the fuzz value in xive_pick_irq_target()
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 10:58:48 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1501721928.2664.17.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r2wtr03d.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au>

On Thu, 2017-08-03 at 10:01 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 2017-08-02 at 18:43 +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> > > If xive_find_target_in_mask() fails to find a cpu, the fuzz value used
> > > in xive_pick_irq_target() is decremented and reused in the last
> > > returning call to xive_find_target_in_mask(). This can result in such
> > > WARNINGs if the initial fuzz value is zero :
> > 
> > Ah indeed ... would have worked better if "fuzz" had been unsigned.
> 
> Is that an ack or a changes requested?

Either ;-) The original code would have been fine with an unsigned, I
didn't realize it was signed and going negative. That said, cedric
patch is fine.

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-03  1:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-02 16:43 [PATCH] powerpc/xive: fix the fuzz value in xive_pick_irq_target() Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-02 21:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2017-08-03  0:01   ` Michael Ellerman
2017-08-03  0:58     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2017-08-03  7:45   ` Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-03  8:02     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2017-08-03  9:52       ` Michael Ellerman
2017-08-03 11:52         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2017-08-03 12:55           ` Cédric Le Goater

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