Re: RFC: radix tree safety

[Nick Piggin]

Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > How about making the code self-documenting and more useful at the same
> > time: put RADIX_TREE_TAGS in radix-tree.h, and call it RADIX_TREE_MAX_TAGS
>
>
> I like that idea - how's the following?  I also took the liberty of
> making the tag arguments be unsigned, since that is clearly the way they
> are intended to be used.

Looks really good. Andrew will you pick it up?

> jon
>
>
> Documentation changes to help radix tree users avoid overrunning the
> tags array.  RADIX_TREE_TAGS moves to linux/radix-tree.h and is now
> known as RADIX_TREE_MAX_TAGS (Nick Piggin's idea).  Tag parameters are
> changed to unsigned, and some comments are updated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>

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