Re: [PATCH] virtio_balloon: fix towards_target when deflatingballoon

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 
> Nothing.  It works just fine.  However, I implemented it more verbosely
> because this is the second time we've "fixed" this problem.  See
> 
> commit bdc1681cdf1ab6a65fa935a2b3f8fc63b20c54ea
> Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Mon Mar 17 22:58:15 2008 -0500
> 
>    virtio: handle > 2 billion page balloon targets

Well, we could perhaps add a sparse warning that makes noise when a 
unsigned subtraction is cast to a wider signed field. I dunno if it would 
catch anything interesting, or just cause a ton of irritating noise.

> So I thought I'd rely a little less on the subtleties of promotion and make
> things a bit more clear.  However, I don't feel that strongly about it so here
> you go.

Ugly and inefficient is not acceptable, even for these kinds of reasons. 
So yes, the simpler version is much better.

		Linus
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