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

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