Re: [PATCH] EDAC, sb_edac: Remove VLA usage

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Mon Mar 12 2018 - 18:52:21 EST


Hi Borislav,

On 03/10/2018 08:04 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 09:02:18PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA and replace it
with a fixed-length array instead.

Fixed as part of the directive to remove all VLAs from
the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Notice that due to this change, the field max_interleave is no longer
used after it has been initialized. Maybe it should be removed?

Yes.


I'll remove it then.

@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ static const u32 knl_interleave_list[] = {
0xdc, 0xe4, 0xec, 0xf4, 0xfc, /* 15-19 */
0x104, 0x10c, 0x114, 0x11c, /* 20-23 */
};
+#define MAX_INTERLEAVE ARRAY_SIZE(knl_interleave_list)

define that as the max of all interleave lists array sizes so that
people can update it properly when new interleave lists get added.


Do you mean just adding a code comment?

Thanks for the feedback.
--
Gustavo