[lvm-devel] [PATCH 16/30] Fix void* pointer arithmetic

[Milan Broz]

On 10/25/2010 10:24 AM, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:

>  static void _touch_memory(void *mem, size_t size)
>  {
>  	size_t pagesize = lvm_getpagesize();
> -	void *pos = mem;
> -	void *end = mem + size - sizeof(long);
> +	char *pos = mem;
> +	char *end = pos + size - sizeof(long);

And what about trash this "touch memory" code completely?

The whole idea of touching memory before locking is IMHO obsolete.

Locking memory should do this implicitly - can we prove that this
code has some effect on recent systems?

Milan