Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] Modpost section mismatch fix

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-07-07T20:10:51Z

On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 01:18:51AM +0530, Raghavendra D Prabhu wrote:
> * On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 12:24:54PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> >>Tested it. Works now.
> >
> >Ok, Stuck Tested-by on the patch. Hopefully Linus hasn't pulled it yet.
> Ok.
> >
> >>Reviewed-by: Raghavendra Prabhu <rprabhu@wnohang.net>
>
> >>Also,
> >>The condition for acpi_gsi_to_irq can be removed since it always returns zero.
> >
> >The function might in the future return something that is non-zero
> >and we should guard for it. Also you make 'irq' be unsigned which is not
> >good as the IRQ 0 is a valid value - and with making it unsigned if it is
> >set to -1 (the -1 is the invalid IRQ value) the check for 'irq != gsi'
> >will be true and and we will pass in -1 casted to unsigned. That is a
> >large value and not the right thing we want to pass to xen_register_gsi.
>
> My rationale for the unsigned part was that acpi_gsi_to_irq always
> assigns a positive value (>= 0) to the irq passed (as unsigned
> argument). But even otherwise that shouldn't make much of difference I guess.
>
> Also,
> I had sent another change (oneline) for the file
> arch/x86/xen/platform-pci-unplug.c for check_platform_magic, looks like that has not gone into
> the pull request for Linus.

Oh, I didn't see it. Did you CC me on it? Can you bounce it to me please?