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Re: [Qemu-stable] [PATCH v2] exec: Fix non-power-of-2 sized accesses
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Alex Williamson |
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Re: [Qemu-stable] [PATCH v2] exec: Fix non-power-of-2 sized accesses |
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Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:43:07 -0600 |
On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 09:37 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 08:27 -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> > On 08/16/2013 05:50 AM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > > + /* Size must be a power of 2 */
> > > + if (l & (l - 1)) {
> > > + while (l & (access_size_max - 1)) {
> > > + access_size_max >>= 1;
> > > + }
> > > + }
> > > +
> >
> > Why the loop at all? x & -x extracts the lsb of x.
>
> l = 5, we want 4, not 1. Thanks,
Which is not what my patch does either :-\