From: Peter Lund <firefly@vax64.dk> Negative shifts are not allowed in C (the result is undefined). Same thing with full-width shifts. It works on most platforms but not on the VAX with gcc 4.0.1 (it results in an "operand reserved" fault). Applies to Linux 2.6.22. Signed-off-by: Peter Lund <firefly@vax64.dk> --- Shifting by more than the width of the value on the left is also not allowed. I think the extra '>> 1' tacked on at the end in the original code was an attempt to work around that. Getting rid of that is an extra feature of this patch. Here's the chapter and verse, taken from the final draft of the C99 standard ("6.5.7 Bitwise shift operators", paragraph 3): "The integer promotions are performed on each of the operands. The type of the result is that of the promoted left operand. If the value of the right operand is negative or is greater than or equal to the width of the promoted left operand, the behavior is undefined." Thank you to Jan-Benedict Glaw, Christoph Hellwig, Maciej Rozycki, Pekka Enberg, and Andreas Schwab for review. Special thanks to Andreas for spotting something I knew but overlooked due to misfiring neurons. I have kept the spacing between the variables and their types so the variable names and the equal signs don't line up, which should keep the majority of my reviewers happy. --- linux-2.6.22/lib/radix-tree.c.orig 2007-07-09 01:32:17.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.22/lib/radix-tree.c 2007-08-29 17:32:00.000000000 +0200 @@ -980,12 +980,14 @@ static __init unsigned long __maxindex(unsigned int height) { - unsigned int tmp = height * RADIX_TREE_MAP_SHIFT; - unsigned long index = (~0UL >> (RADIX_TREE_INDEX_BITS - tmp - 1)) >> 1; + unsigned int width = height * RADIX_TREE_MAP_SHIFT; + int shift = RADIX_TREE_INDEX_BITS - width; - if (tmp >= RADIX_TREE_INDEX_BITS) - index = ~0UL; - return index; + if (shift < 0) + return ~0UL; + if (shift >= 8 * sizeof(unsigned long)) + return 0UL; + return ~0UL >> shift; } static __init void radix_tree_init_maxindex(void) _______________________________________________ Linux-Vax mailing list Linux-Vax@pergamentum.com http://www.pergamentum.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-vax