Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] xen/arm: consolidate make_timer_node and make_timer_domU_node

[Viktor Mitin <viktor.mitin.19@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 12:41 PM Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Well, I address each of the comments or write about it explicitly in
> > other cases.
> > In this particular case, I'd added  '-1', but later did not merge it
> > due to mistake.
> > So it supposed to be the next:
> > +    unsigned int irq[MAX_TIMER_PPI-1]
>
> Please no '-1', it is worst than hardcoding value. In the code you are using 
> an
> element of an enum to access the array. There are no guarantee the last 
> element
> is actually the one you want to drop and therefore you risk to overflow it if
> mistakenly used.
>
I agree that using -1 is not the best idea. It would be better to
introduce a new enum for that. However, since we already have the enum
with 4 items for that, it is better to use it as is.

> The risk is not worth compare to saving just 4-byte on the stack.

Completely agree about it, so I will use MAX_TIMER_PPI(as it is done
now) in the next patch series version,

Thanks

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