Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/MCFG: fix off-by-one in E820 check

[Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 02:25:17PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Also adjust the comment ahead of e820_all_mapped() to clarify that the
> range is not inclusive at its end.
> 
> Reported-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>

> 
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/e820.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/e820.c
> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ struct e820map e820;
>  struct e820map __initdata e820_raw;
>  
>  /*
> - * This function checks if the entire range <start,end> is mapped with type.
> + * This function checks if the entire range [start,end) is mapped with type.

There is another instance of <> inside e820_all_mapped. It would be good
if that's fixed too.

>   *
>   * Note: this function only works correct if the e820 table is sorted and
>   * not-overlapping, which is the case
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/mmconfig-shared.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/x86_64/mmconfig-shared.c
> @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ static int __init is_mmconf_reserved(
>      u64 old_size = size;
>      int valid = 0;
>  
> -    while (!e820_all_mapped(addr, addr + size - 1, E820_RESERVED)) {
> +    while (!e820_all_mapped(addr, addr + size, E820_RESERVED)) {
>          size >>= 1;
>          if (size < (16UL<<20))
>              break;

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