Re: [PATCH 18 of 38] x86: unify pci iommu setup and allow swiotlbto compile for 32 bit

[Ian Campbell]

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 11:53 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> 
> > +     BUG_ON(max_slots > 1UL << (BITS_PER_LONG - IO_TLB_SHIFT));
> 
> How can this BUG_ON happen? Using u64 for the mask is fine though.

It covers the cases where the previous code would have overflowed. It
can't happen right now because although mask is 64 bits the value
assigned to it is currently sizeof(unsigned long). If someone changes
the type of that field then we would start seeing unexpected values.

Ian.

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