From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: joe.jin@oracle.com, bill.irwin@oracle.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gurudas.pai@oracle.com,
zwane@arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add nid sanity on alloc_pages_node
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:43:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070713014349.a8305231.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070713013819.0f8bd1ea.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Sigh. What crap. I guess we leave it as-is.
That matches my conclusion.
The thought of exposing a bug in some user of this find bit code by
tightening up the API to return == N, not >= N, scares poor little old
me. I can imagine a nasty bug coming from this
If someone bold enough and strong enough to slay such dragons came
along, I'd gladly cheer them along. But such people are a rare breed,
and probably have bigger dragons to slay first.
--
I won't rest till it's the best ...
Programmer, Linux Scalability
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.925.600.0401
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-13 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-13 2:45 [PATCH] Add nid sanity on alloc_pages_node Joe Jin
2007-07-13 5:18 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-13 6:40 ` Joe Jin
2007-07-13 6:49 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-13 6:57 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-13 8:29 ` Paul Jackson
2007-07-13 8:38 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-13 8:43 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2007-07-13 8:49 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-13 8:54 ` Paul Jackson
2007-07-13 12:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-13 8:03 ` Joe Jin
2007-07-13 8:15 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-13 12:18 ` Joe Jin
2007-07-13 12:42 ` Paul Jackson
2007-07-14 17:40 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-07-14 18:04 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-14 20:47 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-07-13 8:04 ` gurudas pai
2007-07-13 8:19 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-13 12:37 ` gurudas pai
2007-07-13 8:37 ` Joe Jin
2007-07-13 8:44 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-17 15:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-07-17 16:32 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-17 17:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-07-17 18:58 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-17 19:49 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-07-17 20:01 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-17 20:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-07-18 1:40 ` Joe Jin
2007-07-18 4:49 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-07-18 5:45 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-18 7:34 ` Joe Jin
2007-07-18 6:32 ` Joe Jin
2007-07-18 8:09 ` Joe Jin
2007-07-18 8:35 ` Hugh Dickins
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