Re: [patch 4/8] 2.6.22-rc3 perfmon2 : IBS implementation for AMD64

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David,

> Please don't include mixed cases of hex digits.  This entire file has all 
> hex digits in lowercase type, so please conform to that.

I fixed this in the 2nd version of the patch.

> > +#define K8_MTRRFIXRANGE_DRAM_ENABLE	0x00040000 /* MtrrFixDramEn bit    */
> > +#define K8_MTRRFIXRANGE_DRAM_MODIFY	0x00080000 /* MtrrFixDramModEn bit */
> > +#define K8_MTRR_RDMEM_WRMEM_MASK	0x18181818 /* Mask: RdMem|WrMem    */
> 
> Masks like K8_MTRR_RDMEM_WRMEM_MASK are prone to bugs when the values they 
> are testing change and somebody forgets to update the mask.  Can you make 
> K8_MTRR_RDMEM_WRMEM_MASK defined to be the result of another preprocessor 
> macro expression?  Or, even better, get rid of it completely and modify 
> set_fixed_range()?

This is existing code, won't change that.

Thanks,
-Robert

-- 
AMD Saxony, Dresden, Germany
Operating System Research Center
email: [email protected]



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