Re: [PATCH] target/arm: Use signed quantity to represent VMSAv8-64 translation level

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 at 17:43, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> The LPA2 extension implements 52-bit virtual addressing for 4k and 16k
> translation granules, and for the former, this means an additional level
> of translation is needed. This means we start counting at -1 instead of
> 0 when doing a walk, and so 'level' is now a signed quantity, and should
> be typed as such. So turn it from uint32_t into int32_t.
>

Does this cause any visible wrong behaviour, or is it just
a cleanup thing ?

thanks
-- PMM