Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luck, Tony" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH v10 6/6] x86/split_lock: Enable split lock detection by kernel parameter | Date | Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:52:38 +0000 |
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> If anything we could switch the entire bitmap interface to unsigned int, > but I'm not sure that'd actually help much.
As we've been looking for potential split lock issues in kernel code, most of the ones we found relate to callers who have <=32 bits and thus stick:
u32 flags;
in their structure. So it would solve those places, and fix any future code where someone does the same thing.
-Tony
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