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From: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Philippe Bergheaud <philippe.bergheaud@fr.ibm.com>,
	Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Alastair D'Silva" <alastair@linux.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	Christophe Lombard <christophe_lombard@fr.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc: Avoid signed to unsigned conversion in set_thread_tidr()
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 08:27:32 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efojm7oj.fsf@vajain21.in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171127234158.GA8067@us.ibm.com>


Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> We can eliminate the 'else' and be consistent with existing code, if
> we check for error (i.e rc < 0) and return rc. assign_thread_tidr() will
> not return 0, but even if it did, setting the register and thread.tidr
> to 0 should not be a problem.

Thanks for the suggestion Sukadev. I have sent out a v4 at
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/841937/ with the update.

-- 
Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Linux Technology Center, IBM India Pvt. Ltd.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-11-28  2:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-27 17:19 [PATCH v3] powerpc: Avoid signed to unsigned conversion in set_thread_tidr() Vaibhav Jain
2017-11-27 23:41 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2017-11-28  2:57   ` Vaibhav Jain [this message]

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