Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:32:58 +0800 | From | Jiang Liu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/iommu: use bit structures for context_entry |
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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 >> >> > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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