Re: [v2 PATCH] RISC-V: Optimize tlb flush path.

From: hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue Aug 20 2019 - 03:16:47 EST


On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 09:14:58AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Aug 19 2019, "hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This looks a little odd to m and assumes we never pass a size smaller
> > than PAGE_SIZE. Whule that is probably true, why not something like:
> >
> > if (size < PAGE_SIZE && size != -1)
>
> ITYM size <= PAGE_SIZE. And since size is unsigned it cannot be == -1
> at the same time.

Yes, the <= was obvious, that's what you get for hacking up a demo
patch on the plan. And true for the -1. That being said I find the
-1 convention rather annoying, a ULONG_MAX in the callers would be
a lot more obvious.