Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Mar 2022 16:49:12 -0700 | From | Dave Hansen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86/pkeys: Standardize on u8 for pkey type |
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On 3/10/22 16:57, ira.weiny@intel.com wrote: > From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> > > The number of pkeys supported on x86 and powerpc are much smaller than a > u16 value can hold. It is desirable to standardize on the type for > pkeys. powerpc currently supports the most pkeys at 32. u8 is plenty > large for that. > > Standardize on the pkey types by changing u16 to u8.
How widely was this intended to "standardize" things? Looks like it may have missed a few spots.
Also if we're worried about the type needing to change or with the wrong type being used, I guess we could just to a pkey_t typedef.
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