Re: [PATCH v5 12/20] x86: perf: intel_pt: Intel PT PMU driver

[Alexander Shishkin]

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> +/* make negative table index stand for the last table entry */
>> +#define TOPA_ENTRY(t, i) ((i) == -1 ? &(t)->table[(t)->last] : &(t)->table[(i)])
>
> code does not match comment; negative would be: i < 0, not i == -1.

Indeed.

> Something like: ({ if (i < 0) i += t->size; t->table[i]; }), might work,
> of course that goes bang when: i !e [-size,size)

Table indices and sizes are measured in different units. Using -1 to
mean the last is just a small convenience, in the code it would be used
explicitly as TOPA_ENTRY(topa, -1).end = 1, for example.

Regards,
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Alex
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