Re: [PATCH -next] iommu/amd: fix a warning in increase_address_space

[Jerry Snitselaar]

On Wed Oct 16 19, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
> On Wed Oct 16 19, Qian Cai wrote:
> > BTW, Joerg, this line from the commit "iommu/amd: Remove domain->updated" looks
> > suspicious. Not sure what the purpose of it.
> >
> > *updated = increase_address_space(domain, gfp) || *updated;
>
> Looking at it again I think that isn't an issue really, it would just
> not lose updated being set in a previous loop iteration, but now
> I'm wondering about the loop itself. In the cases where it would return
> false, how does the evaluation of the condition for the while loop
> change?

I guess the mode level 6 check is really for other potential callers
increase_address_space, none exist at the moment, and the condition
of the while loop in alloc_pte should fail if the mode level is 6.