Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 03:09:08PM +0000, Wang, Wei W wrote:
> > On Friday, December 1, 2017 9:02 PM, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > If start == end is legal,
> > >
> > > for (; start < end; start = (start | (IDA_BITMAP_BITS - 1)) + 1) {
> > >
> > > makes this loop do nothing because 10 < 10 is false.
> >
> > How about "start <= end "?
>
> Don't ask Tetsuo for his opinion, write some userspace code that uses it.
>
Please be sure to prepare for "end == -1UL" case, for "start < end" will become
true when "start = (start | (IDA_BITMAP_BITS - 1)) + 1" made "start == 0" due to
overflow.
