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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@quicinc.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: Avoid shadowing a local in search_memslots()
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:39:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YXgvTnhVWZ0gJdFs@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7e3fb7c6-265c-d245-dd97-24ab401a8ea3@redhat.com>

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 26/10/21 18:14, Qian Cai wrote:
> > > Maybe "pivot"?  Or just "tmp"?  I also vote to hoist the declaration out of the
> > > loop precisely to avoid potential shadows, and to also associate the variable
> > > with the "start" and "end" variables, e.g.
> > Actually, I am a bit more prefer to keep the declaration inside the loop
> > as it makes the declaration and assignment closer to make it easier to
> > understand the code. It should be relatively trivial to avoid potential
> > shadows in the future. It would be interesting to see what Paolo would say.
> 
> You both have good arguments, so whoever writes the patch wins. :)

LOL, KVM's version of Thunderdome.

      reply	other threads:[~2021-10-26 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-26 15:13 [PATCH] kvm: Avoid shadowing a local in search_memslots() Qian Cai
2021-10-26 15:44 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-10-26 15:57   ` Qian Cai
2021-10-26 16:14   ` Qian Cai
2021-10-26 16:18     ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-10-26 16:39       ` Sean Christopherson [this message]

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