linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v18 05/10] xbitmap: add more operations

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Message-ID: <20171201172519.GA27192@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 1 Dec 2017 09:25:19 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     "Wang, Wei W" <wei.w.wang@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v18 05/10] xbitmap: add more operations

On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 03:09:08PM +0000, Wang, Wei W wrote:
> On Friday, December 1, 2017 9:02 PM, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > If start == end is legal,
> > 
> >    for (; start < end; start = (start | (IDA_BITMAP_BITS - 1)) + 1) {
> > 
> > makes this loop do nothing because 10 < 10 is false.
> 
> How about "start <= end "?

Don't ask Tetsuo for his opinion, write some userspace code that uses it.