From: David Howells <dhowells@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PAG support, try #2
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 13:03:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31039.1052913790@warthog.warthog> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030514114953.GS29534@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
> > +typedef __kernel_pag_t pag_t;
>
> > +static pag_t vfs_pag_next = 1;
>
> > + vfspag->pag = vfs_pag_next++;
> > + if (vfspag->pag < 1)
> > + vfspag->pag = 1;
>
> Is there a reason pag_t isn't an unsigned int? Seems to me you'll have
> 2^31 good times followed by 2^31 bad times. Also, isn't signed overflow
> one of these undefined things? I wouldn't mention it except that gcc
> seem to be more and more fond of obeying the letter of the standard
> rather than doing useful stuff.
I made it the same as pid_t. However, -ve PIDs can have special meanings which
aren't applicable to PAGs, so I suppose it ought to be unsigned. Time to
change it again. Sigh.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-14 11:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-14 10:43 [PATCH] PAG support, try #2 David Howells
2003-05-14 10:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-14 11:56 ` David Howells
2003-05-14 12:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-14 12:45 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-14 12:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-14 11:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-05-14 12:03 ` David Howells [this message]
2003-05-14 16:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-14 17:37 ` David Howells
2003-05-15 11:18 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-05-18 14:51 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-14 19:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-14 16:58 ` Jan Harkes
2003-05-14 17:11 ` Jan Harkes
2003-05-14 20:45 ` [OpenAFS-devel] " Harald Barth
2003-05-15 0:14 ` Garance A Drosihn
2003-05-15 0:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-15 1:34 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-15 2:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-15 14:04 ` Dean Anderson
2003-05-15 16:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-15 16:41 ` David Howells
2003-05-15 17:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-16 12:12 ` David Howells
2003-05-15 23:00 ` Garance A Drosihn
2003-05-15 23:21 ` QM_MODULES Function not implemented John Shillinglaw
2003-05-16 0:53 ` [OpenAFS-devel] Re: [PATCH] PAG support, try #2 Nathan Neulinger
2003-05-15 4:26 ` Russ Allbery
2003-05-15 4:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-15 15:34 ` Booker Bense
2003-05-15 13:12 ` Garance A Drosihn
2003-05-15 15:55 ` Douglas E. Engert
2003-05-15 13:35 ` David Howells
2003-05-15 13:55 ` chas williams
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