Re: [PATCH 2/2] maple_tree: Add MAS_UNDERFLOW and MAS_OVERFLOW states

[Liam R. Howlett]

* Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [230921 14:40]:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 02:12:36PM -0400, Liam R. Howlett wrote:
> > Since MAS_NONE is used for handling of the maple tree when it's a single
> > entry at 0 (just a pointer), changing the handling of MAS_NONE in
> > mas_find() would make the code more complicated and error prone.
> 
> Single entry at index 0 is MAS_ROOT, not MAS_NONE.

Ah, sorry.  I didn't explain this well.  We end up in MAS_NONE when we
search from MAS_ROOT upwards.. that is, there's a value only at 0 and we
request 1 - ULONG_MAX, or we've called mas_find() with an index > 0.  So
there is no node in the tree for this entry.

The complication arises when mas_prev(), mas_next() or
mas_walk()/mas_find() has already set MAS_NONE, then we can't tell the
difference and so we don't really know what the Right Thing to do would
be.