Re: [PATCH v3] x86/vmware: use unsigned integer for shifting

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 11:27:37PM +0530, Shreenidhi Shedi wrote:
> From: Shreenidhi Shedi <sshedi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Shifting signed 32-bit value by 31 bits is implementation-defined
> behaviour. Using unsigned is better option for this.

The kernel builds with -fno-strict-overflow and as such this behaviour
is well defined.

> Fixes: 4cca6ea04d31 ("x86/apic: Allow x2apic without IR on VMware platform")

Nothing broken, therefore nothing fixed.