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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 02/13] x86/insn-eval: Compute linear address in several utility functions
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 09:26:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171104082606.u3ergfxu6sxtds4r@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171104004008.GA27257@voyager>


* Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> Plus, one more advantage of using char/short/int/long is that when building a 
> 32-bit kernel long will be a 32-bit type. Thus, all the aritmetic would be 
> naturally done with variables of the appropriate width. Perhaps I could use 
> u8/u16/u32/long? It looks white odd, though.

Ok, I agree that this aspect is important - and mixing u8/u16/u32 with 'long' 
would look a bit weird.

Let's keep the char/short/int/long types for now.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-04  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-27 23:51 [PATCH v10 00/13] x86: Enable User-Mode Instruction Prevention Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 23:51 ` [PATCH v10 01/13] x86/insn-eval: Extend get_seg_base_addr() to also obtain segment limit Ricardo Neri
2017-11-02  9:37   ` [tip:x86/mpx] " tip-bot for Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 23:51 ` [PATCH v10 02/13] x86/insn-eval: Compute linear address in several utility functions Ricardo Neri
2017-11-02  8:51   ` Ingo Molnar
2017-11-02 11:07     ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-03  2:46       ` Ricardo Neri
2017-11-03  2:44     ` Ricardo Neri
2017-11-03 10:17       ` Ingo Molnar
2017-11-04  0:40         ` Ricardo Neri
2017-11-04  8:26           ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2017-10-27 23:51 ` [PATCH v10 03/13] x86/insn-eval: Add support to resolve 32-bit address encodings Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 23:51 ` [PATCH v10 04/13] x86/insn-eval: Add wrapper function for 32 and 64-bit addresses Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 23:51 ` [PATCH v10 05/13] x86/insn-eval: Handle 32-bit address encodings in virtual-8086 mode Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 23:51 ` [PATCH v10 06/13] x86/insn-eval: Add support to resolve 16-bit address encodings Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 23:51 ` [PATCH v10 07/13] x86/cpufeature: Add User-Mode Instruction Prevention definitions Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 23:51 ` [PATCH v10 08/13] x86: Add emulation code for UMIP instructions Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 23:51 ` [PATCH v10 09/13] x86/umip: Force a page fault when unable to copy emulated result to user Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 23:51 ` [PATCH v10 10/13] x86: Enable User-Mode Instruction Prevention Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 23:51 ` [PATCH v10 11/13] x86/traps: Fixup general protection faults caused by UMIP Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 23:51 ` [PATCH v10 12/13] selftests/x86: Add tests for User-Mode Instruction Prevention Ricardo Neri
2017-10-27 23:51 ` [PATCH v10 13/13] selftests/x86: Add tests for instruction str and sldt Ricardo Neri

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