linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 04/16] KVM: MMU: return bool in __rmap_write

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Date:	Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:25:30 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Takuya Yoshikawa <takuya.yoshikawa@...il.com>
CC:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/16] KVM: MMU: return bool in __rmap_write_protect

On 04/14/2012 05:00 AM, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:11:13 +0800
> Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > The reture value of __rmap_write_protect is either 1 or 0, use
> > true/false instead of these
>
> ...
>
> > @@ -1689,7 +1690,7 @@ static void mmu_sync_children(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> > 
> >  	kvm_mmu_pages_init(parent, &parents, &pages);
> >  	while (mmu_unsync_walk(parent, &pages)) {
> > -		int protected = 0;
> > +		bool protected = false;
> > 
> >  		for_each_sp(pages, sp, parents, i)
> >  			protected |= rmap_write_protect(vcpu->kvm, sp->gfn);
>
> Isn't this the reason we prefer int to bool?
>
> Not sure people like to use |= with boolean.
>

Why not?

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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