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RE: [PATCH v4 09/17] xen/arm: introduce a helper to parse device tree NUMA distance map


  • To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
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  • Thread-topic: [PATCH v4 09/17] xen/arm: introduce a helper to parse device tree NUMA distance map

Hi Jan,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 09/17] xen/arm: introduce a helper to parse device
> tree NUMA distance map
> 
> > Great points! Thanks for pointing the 8-bit truncation out. You are correct.
> > Somehow my impression of numa_set_distance()'s first two arguments are
> > already "unsigned int" so I missed this part...Sorry.
> >
> > In that case, I think I will add a check between "from, to" and
> MAX_NUMNODES
> > as soon as the values of "from" and "to" are populated by dt_next_cell().
> > Hopefully this will address your concern.
> 
> While this would address by concern, I don't see why you want to repeat
> the checking that numa_set_distance() already does.

Correct, I think I would better to move the check in numa_set_distance() to
the caller fdt_parse_numa_distance_map_v1() as I believe if the truncation
really happens it is too late to check in numa_set_distance().

Kind regards,
Henry

> 
> Jan

 


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