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From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: kvm/paging_tmpl.h intialize the variable before using it
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 11:07:32 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1243229852.3157.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A1A2ADC.1090004@redhat.com>

On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 08:21 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> >> It's a false alarm.  Isn't there a macro to shut up the warning?
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > In arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h sptep is initialize only in :
> >
> > for_each_shadow_entry(vcpu, addr, iterator) {
> >
> > If we skip this, then we end up with wild sptep and returning it.
> >
> > Do you still think it is a false alarm ?
> >   
> 
> That loop always has at least one iteration.
> 

hmm, In that case we should use a do-while flavor function so that the
compiler will also happy with it.

--
JSR


  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-25  5:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-20  4:29 [PATCH -tip] x86: kvm/paging_tmpl.h intialize the variable before using it Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-05-24 12:21 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-25  5:17   ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-05-25  5:21     ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-25  5:37       ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput [this message]
2009-05-25  6:01         ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-25  6:05   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-26 11:44     ` Avi Kivity

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