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From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, jaxboe@fusionio.com,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] md: bitwise operations might not fit in a "bool"
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:20:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C4837A5.6040209@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100722215555.7ab2b1ee@notabene>

On 07/22/2010 02:55 PM, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:44:53 +0300
> Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> when taking a resolute of a bit-wise AND as true false. Better / faster
>> to make it a boolean operation.
>>
>> This fixes a bug and a crash because the flags field did not fit into
>> the bool operands.
> 
> No, that won't work.
> Read the rest of the code and see where 'do_sync' and 'do_barriers' are used.
> 
> NeilBrown
> 

You are right! (I didn't look)

the use of "bool" was wrong from the get go. it was never a bool operation.
What was the guy thinking? What is that do_XXX name? that name should change
as well. Perhaps flg_sync, flg_barriers.

Boaz

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-22 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-22  7:04 BUG at drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:1113 Jiri Slaby
2010-07-22  7:37 ` Neil Brown
2010-07-22  8:06   ` Jiri Slaby
2010-07-22  8:36   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-22  8:39     ` Jiri Slaby
2010-07-22 10:39   ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-07-22 11:44     ` [PATCH] md: bitwise operations might not fit in a "bool" Boaz Harrosh
2010-07-22 11:55       ` Neil Brown
2010-07-22 12:20         ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
2010-07-22 12:37           ` Neil Brown
2010-07-27 22:27         ` H. Peter Anvin

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