On 23.07.2024 22:37, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> XenServer's instance of coverity complains of OVERFLOW_BEFORE_WIDEN in
> mask_and_ack_level_ioapic_irq(), which is ultimately because of v being
> unsigned long, and (1U << ...) being 32 bits.

Which of course is bogus when the shift amount is masked down to 5 bits.
May I ask that you express this somehow in the wording.

> Introduce a apic_tmr_read() helper like we already have for ISR and IRR, and
> use it to remove the opencoded access logic.  Introduce an is_level boolean to
> improve the legibility of the surrounding logic.
> 
> No functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <[email protected]>

The change is an improvement irrespective of Coverity's anomaly, so:
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>

Jan

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