From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Steffen Persvold <sp@numascale.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Drop redundant memory-block sizing code
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 11:40:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141106104034.GB4849@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <545B4E84.7050707@numascale.com>
On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 06:33:40PM +0800, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> As the first check for 64GB or larger memory returns a 2GB memory block size
> in that case, the following check for less than 64GB will always evaluate
> true, leading to unreachable code.
I'm reading this as this code is never running on systems < 64GB. Why is
that so?
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-06 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2014-11-06 4:50 ` [PATCH] x86: Drop redundant memory-block sizing code Daniel J Blueman
2014-11-06 9:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-06 10:33 ` Daniel J Blueman
2014-11-06 10:40 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2014-11-06 11:10 ` Daniel J Blueman
2014-11-06 11:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-10 9:03 ` Daniel J Blueman
2014-11-10 16:11 ` Borislav Petkov
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