Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: Fix incorrect for loop count calculation in sync_global_pgds

From: Dan Williams
Date: Mon May 01 2017 - 11:50:00 EST


On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/01/17 at 07:40am, Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 4:41 AM, Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 6 ++++--
>> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
>> > index 15173d3..dbf4f00 100644
>> > --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
>> > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
>> > @@ -94,12 +94,14 @@ __setup("noexec32=", nonx32_setup);
>> > */
>> > void sync_global_pgds(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
>> > {
>> > - unsigned long address;
>> > + unsigned long address, address_next;
>> >
>> > - for (address = start; address <= end; address += PGDIR_SIZE) {
>> > + for (address = start; address <= end; address = address_next) {
>> > const pgd_t *pgd_ref = pgd_offset_k(address);
>> > struct page *page;
>> >
>> > + address_next = (address & PGDIR_MASK) + PGDIR_SIZE;
>> > +
>>
>> Let's change this to put the next address calculation in the for loop
>> directly and use the ALIGN macro. Something like:
>>
>> for (address = start; address <= end; address = ALIGN(address + 1, PGDIR_SIZE))
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> Good idea!
>
> Do you think below change is OK for you? Taking out the initialization
> can make the for loop line be shorter than 80 char.
>

I would just wrap the "address = ALIGN(address + 1, PGDIR_SIZE)" if it
doesn't fit.

>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> index 15173d3..0840311 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> @@ -94,12 +94,14 @@ __setup("noexec32=", nonx32_setup);
> */
> void sync_global_pgds(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> {
> - unsigned long address;
> + unsigned long address = start;
>
> - for (address = start; address <= end; address += PGDIR_SIZE) {
> + for (; address <= end; address = ALIGN(address + 1, PGDIR_SIZE))
> {
> const pgd_t *pgd_ref = pgd_offset_k(address);
> struct page *page;
>
> + address_next = (address & PGDIR_MASK) + PGDIR_SIZE;
> +

This gets deleted of course.