Re: Exception while handling MEM Hole on OMAP3 / ARM Cortex A8

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Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Mon 2009-09-07 15:22:10, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:31:49AM +0530, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> > > Here's a fixed version:
> > 
> > And here's my revised version with these fixes in.  I changed the
> > while loop to a do..while loop instead (since we will always have
> > at least one memory bank, it's pointless doing that test for the
> > first iteration.)
> > 
> > Acks and tested-bys would be useful please.
> > 
> 
> > +static int __init meminfo_cmp(const void *_a, const void *_b)
> > +{
> > +	const struct membank *a = _a, *b = _b;
> > +	long cmp = bank_pfn_start(a) - bank_pfn_start(b);
> > +	return cmp < 0 ? -1 : cmp > 0 ? 1 : 0;
> > +}
> 
> I believe you can just return cmp here.

If this were generic code, the long value might overflow int.
But this is ARM code, limited to 32 bits, so it could.
It'd be asking for trouble if someone copied the code elsewhere, though.

-- Jamie
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