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Date:   Fri, 7 Sep 2018 09:49:59 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To:     "Yang, Bin" <bin.yang@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] x86/mm: optimize static_protection() by using
 overlap()
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On Fri, 7 Sep 2018, Yang, Bin wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-09-04 at 14:22 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> I just write a test.c to compare the result between overlap() and
> original within().

You are right. Your version of doing the overlap exclusive works. I misread
the conditions. I still prefer doing inclusive checks because they are way
more obvious.

Thanks,

	tglx