From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
quic_jhugo@quicinc.com, snitzer@kernel.org,
dm <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Fix confusion around MAX_ORDER
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:46:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZS5mDNCRkp/RGm45@duo.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b3ed3da7-ffa3-0d35-34c1-27b159af43bb@redhat.com>
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On Thu 2023-09-28 18:57:18, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 9/28/23 09:50, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > > > Fix the bugs and then change the definition of MAX_ORDER to be
> > > > inclusive: the range of orders user can ask from buddy allocator is
> > > > 0..MAX_ORDER now.
> > I think that exclusive MAX_ORDER is more intuitive in the C language -
> > i.e. if you write "for (i = 0; i < MAX_ORDER; i++)", you are supposed to
> > loop over all allowed values. If you declare an array "void
> > *array[MAX_ORDER];" you are supposed to hold a value for each allowed
> > order.
> >
> > Pascal has for loops and array dimensions with inclusive ranges - and it
> > is more prone to off-by-one errors.
>
> I agree it's somewhat confusing either way but the ship has sailed, the
> patch has been included in Linux for several months.
Just make sure people don't backport it to stable. Fixes: (the commit
that causes the semantic change) should do the trick.
BR,
Pavel
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-15 11:31 [PATCH 00/10] Fix confusion around MAX_ORDER Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-03-15 11:31 ` [PATCH 01/10] sparc/mm: Fix MAX_ORDER usage in tsb_grow() Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-03-16 3:04 ` Mike Kravetz
2023-03-17 8:46 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-03-17 8:35 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-03-21 7:48 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-03-15 11:31 ` [PATCH 02/10] um: Fix MAX_ORDER usage in linux_main() Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-03-17 8:49 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-03-21 7:49 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-03-15 11:31 ` [PATCH 03/10] floppy: Fix MAX_ORDER usage Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-03-17 8:53 ` Mike Rapoport
2023-03-21 7:53 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-03-15 11:31 ` [PATCH 04/10] drm/i915: Fix MAX_ORDER usage in i915_gem_object_get_pages_internal() Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-03-15 14:18 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2023-03-15 15:28 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-03-15 15:35 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2023-03-15 15:38 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-03-16 8:55 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2023-03-21 7:57 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-03-21 7:55 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-03-15 11:31 ` [PATCH 05/10] genwqe: Fix MAX_ORDER usage Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-03-21 7:59 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-03-15 11:31 ` [PATCH 06/10] perf/core: Fix MAX_ORDER usage in rb_alloc_aux_page() Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-03-21 8:00 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-03-15 11:31 ` [PATCH 07/10] mm/page_reporting: Fix MAX_ORDER usage in page_reporting_register() Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-03-21 8:01 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-03-15 11:31 ` [PATCH 08/10] mm/slub: Fix MAX_ORDER usage in calculate_order() Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-03-16 11:18 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-03-15 11:31 ` [PATCH 09/10] iommu: Fix MAX_ORDER usage in __iommu_dma_alloc_pages() Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-03-15 12:18 ` Robin Murphy
2023-03-22 12:20 ` Joerg Roedel
2023-03-15 16:07 ` Jacob Pan
2023-03-21 8:05 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-03-15 11:31 ` [PATCH 10/10] mm, treewide: Redefine MAX_ORDER sanely Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-03-15 15:06 ` kernel test robot
2023-03-15 15:26 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-03-15 15:26 ` kernel test robot
2023-03-15 15:38 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-03-16 17:09 ` Zi Yan
2023-03-16 23:21 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-03-17 13:17 ` Zi Yan
2023-03-16 18:15 ` Mike Kravetz
2023-03-16 23:00 ` Mike Kravetz
2023-03-16 23:30 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-03-17 1:57 ` Vineet Gupta
2023-03-21 11:22 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-03-22 3:26 ` Michael Ellerman
2023-03-21 16:38 ` [PATCH 00/10] Fix confusion around MAX_ORDER Mel Gorman
2023-03-23 15:03 ` David Laight
2023-09-27 17:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-09-28 7:50 ` Mikulas Patocka
2023-09-28 16:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-10-17 10:46 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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