svn commit: r218966 - head/sys/vm
Kostik Belousov
kostikbel at gmail.com
Sun Feb 27 13:19:10 UTC 2011
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 11:12:03PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Bruce Cran wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 10:36 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >>
> >>I would cast operand(s) in the expression as necessary to prevent overflow
> >>of subexpressions. vm_pindex_t would work, but I prefer to use a type
> >>related to the subexpressions. Not sure what that is. Maybe just
> >>uintmax_t for safety (even that is not safe if the subexpressions have
> >>large values). So:
> >>
> >> (uintmax_t)swap_bcount * SWAP_META_PAGES * n / mumble.
> >
> >Following Alan's suggestion, I've attached an updated patch which uses a
> >cast to u_long and returns long.
>
> I thought he only meant to return long. The units being returned are
> PAGE_SIZE smaller than the units in the expression. But I don't know
> exacty how large swp_bcount can be. If everything fits in a single
> object, then vm_size_t = u_int on 32-bit machines is enough.
I think that return type should be left as vm_offset_t. The calculation
basically returns some quantity of type vm_offset_t, divided by PAGE_SIZE.
This validates the new return type.
The calculation could use vm_offset_t, or uintmax_t cast, probably
vm_offset_t is preferred for the same reason.
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