linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] rcu: Check the range of jiffies_till_xxx

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Date:   Thu, 31 May 2018 11:18:50 +0900
From:   Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>
To:     paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     jiangshanlai@...il.com, josh@...htriplett.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@....com, joel@...lfernandes.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] rcu: Check the range of jiffies_till_xxx_fqs on setting
 them

On 2018-05-29 21:01, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> One approach would be to embed the kernel_params_ops structure inside
> another structure containing the limits, then just have two structures.
> Perhaps something like this already exists?  I don't see it right off,
> but then again, I am not exactly an expert on module_param.
> 
> Thoughts?

Unfortunately, I couldn't find it. There might be no way to verify
range of a variable except the way I did. Could you give your opinion
about whether I should go on it?

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Thanks,
Byungchul