From: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>,
trivial@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] mm/memblock.c: trivial code refine in memblock_is_region_memory()
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 12:43:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161221124320.GA23096@vultr.guest> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161221074809.GD16502@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 08:48:09AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
>On Tue 20-12-16 16:35:40, Wei Yang wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 04:15:14PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> >On Sun 18-12-16 14:47:49, Wei Yang wrote:
>> >> The base address is already guaranteed to be in the region by
>> >> memblock_search().
>> >
>>
>> Hi, Michal
>>
>> Nice to receive your comment.
>>
>> >First of all the way how the check is removed is the worst possible...
>> >Apart from that it is really not clear to me why checking the base
>> >is not needed. You are mentioning memblock_search but what about other
>> >callers? adjust_range_page_size_mask e.g...
>> >
>>
>> Hmm... the memblock_search() is called by memblock_is_region_memory(). Maybe I
>> paste the whole function here would clarify the change.
>>
>> int __init_memblock memblock_is_region_memory(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size)
>> {
>> int idx = memblock_search(&memblock.memory, base);
>> phys_addr_t end = base + memblock_cap_size(base, &size);
>>
>> if (idx == -1)
>> return 0;
>> return memblock.memory.regions[idx].base <= base &&
>> (memblock.memory.regions[idx].base +
>> memblock.memory.regions[idx].size) >= end;
>> }
>
>Ohh, my bad. I thought that memblock_search is calling
>memblock_is_region_memory. I didn't notice this is other way around.
>Then I agree that the check for the base is not needed and can be
>removed.
Thanks~
I would feel honored if you would like to add Acked-by :-)
>--
>Michal Hocko
>SUSE Labs
--
Wei Yang
Help you, Help me
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-21 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-18 14:47 [PATCH V2 0/2] mm/memblock.c: fix potential bug and code refine Wei Yang
2016-12-18 14:47 ` [PATCH V2 1/2] mm/memblock.c: trivial code refine in memblock_is_region_memory() Wei Yang
2016-12-19 15:15 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-20 16:35 ` Wei Yang
2016-12-21 7:48 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-21 12:43 ` Wei Yang [this message]
2016-12-21 12:48 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-21 13:15 ` Wei Yang
2016-12-18 14:47 ` [PATCH V2 2/2] mm/memblock.c: check return value of memblock_reserve() in memblock_virt_alloc_internal() Wei Yang
2016-12-19 15:21 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-20 16:48 ` Wei Yang
2016-12-21 7:51 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-21 13:13 ` Wei Yang
2016-12-21 13:22 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-21 14:39 ` Wei Yang
2016-12-21 14:52 ` Michal Hocko
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