linux-kernel - Re: [patch V2 26/38] posix-cpu-timers: Make expiry checks array based

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Sat, 24 Aug 2019 00:44:05 +0200
From:   Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [patch V2 26/38] posix-cpu-timers: Make expiry checks array based

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 09:09:13PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The expiry cache is an array indexed by clock ids. The new sample functions
> allow to retrieve a corresponding array of samples.
> 
> Convert the fastpath expiry checks to make use of the new sample functions
> and do the comparisons on the sample and the expiry array.
> 
> Make the check for the expiry array being zero array based as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>

Just a few boring neats:

>  /**
> - * task_cputime_expired - Compare two task_cputime entities.
> + * task_cputimers_expired - Compare two task_cputime entities.

s/task_cputime/clock arrays ?

>   *
> - * @sample:	The task_cputime structure to be checked for expiration.
> - * @expires:	Expiration times, against which @sample will be checked.
> + * @samples:	Array of current samples for the CPUCLOCK clocks
> + * @expiries:	Array of expiry values for the CPUCLOCK clocks
>   *
> - * Checks @sample against @expires to see if any field of @sample has expired.
> - * Returns true if any field of the former is greater than the corresponding
> - * field of the latter if the latter field is set.  Otherwise returns false.
> + * Returns true if any mmember of @samples is greater than the corresponding

s/mmember/member

> + * member of @expiries if that member is non zero. False otherwise
>   */
> -static inline int task_cputime_expired(const struct task_cputime *sample,
> -					const struct task_cputime *expires)
> +static inline bool task_cputimers_expired(const u64 *sample, const u64 *expiries)

s/sample/samples to agree with above documented parameters.

Thanks.