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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

  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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