Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/iommu: use bit structures for context_entry

From: Jiang Liu
Date: Fri Jan 10 2014 - 02:33:13 EST


I have noticed the same issue too. But after second check, seems
it's safe with current implementation, but obviously it's not
future safe.

On 2014/1/10 15:29, Li, ZhenHua wrote:
> I have not seen such a bug yet . but obviously a '=' should be used when
> you want to set a value.
>
> for example, if x != 0,
> x=10
> and
> x|=10
> will cause different result.
>
> ZhenHua
>
> On 01/07/2014 10:41 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 04:45:01PM +0800, Li, Zhen-Hua wrote:
>>> There is a structure named context_entry used by intel iommu, and there
>>> are some bit operations on it. Use bit structure may make these
>>> operations
>>> easy.
>>> Also the function context_set_address_root may cause problem because
>>> it uses
>>> |= operation, not set the new value. And this patch can fix it.
>>
>> What is the problem you are trying to fix here? Is it an actual bug?
>>
>>
>> Joerg
>>
>>
>
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