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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	bjorn_helgaas@hp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix CPU bitmask truncation
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:12:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021220171243.GD9704@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <je7ke4yje3.fsf@sykes.suse.de>

William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> writes:
|> ===== include/linux/init_task.h 1.19 vs edited =====
|> --- 1.19/include/linux/init_task.h	Sun Sep 29 07:02:55 2002
|> +++ edited/include/linux/init_task.h	Fri Dec 20 02:22:04 2002
|> @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
|>  	.prio		= MAX_PRIO-20,					\
|>  	.static_prio	= MAX_PRIO-20,					\
|>  	.policy		= SCHED_NORMAL,					\
|> -	.cpus_allowed	= -1,						\
|> +	.cpus_allowed	= ~0UL,						\

On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 01:17:24PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> This is useless.  Assigning -1 to any unsigned type is garanteed to give
> you all bits one, and with two's complement this also holds for any signed
> type.

Not so on all gcc versions. The rest of the world can figure out what
to do about the versions that do not.


Bill

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-20 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-16 19:13 [PATCH] Fix CPU bitmask truncation Bjorn Helgaas
2002-12-20 10:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-20 11:15   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-20 17:00     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2002-12-25 21:43       ` Alan Cox
2002-12-25 21:54         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-20 12:17   ` Andreas Schwab
2002-12-20 17:12     ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-12-20 18:23     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2002-12-20 20:00       ` Andreas Schwab
2002-12-20 22:57   ` Anton Blanchard
2002-12-20 23:36     ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-20 23:42       ` Anton Blanchard

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