Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Correct a tiny mistake in code comment

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Mar 08 2017 - 04:37:14 EST


On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 05:09:55PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> Yes, it looks better. I can repost with this change. Thanks.

No it doesn't:

#define EFI_VA_START ( -4 * (_AC(1, UL) << 30))
#define EFI_VA_END (-68 * (_AC(1, UL) << 30))

That's -4G (the shift by 30) and -68G, respectively.

> > #define EFI_VA_START _AC(0xfffffffeffffffff, UL)
> > #define EFI_VA_END _AC(0xffffffef00000000, UL)

That is something which I need to type into a calculator first.

Can you guys point your attention to something which is really broken
and stop wasting your time? And there's enough really broken crap left
and right...

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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