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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, kexec <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
	caiqian@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kexec load failure introduced by "x86, memblock: Replace e820_/_early string with memblock_"
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:50:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA11FB7.2080101@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CA11918.7050708@kernel.org>

+		crash_base = alignment;
+		while ((crash_base + crash_size) <= total_mem) {
+			start = memblock_find_in_range(crash_base,
+				crash_base + crash_size, crash_size, alignment);
+
+			if (start == crash_base)
+				break;
+
+			crash_base += alignment;
+		}
+		if (start != crash_base) {

Open-coded crap violation error!

Seriously, these kinds of open-coded loops are *never* acceptable, since
they are really "let's violate the interface by making it do something
it wasn't intended to do" -- it means we need a new interface.

Alternatively, if we really need the lowest possible address, why do we
need to search?

	-hpa

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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: caiqian@redhat.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	kexec <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kexec load failure introduced by "x86, memblock: Replace e820_/_early string with memblock_"
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:50:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA11FB7.2080101@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CA11918.7050708@kernel.org>

+		crash_base = alignment;
+		while ((crash_base + crash_size) <= total_mem) {
+			start = memblock_find_in_range(crash_base,
+				crash_base + crash_size, crash_size, alignment);
+
+			if (start == crash_base)
+				break;
+
+			crash_base += alignment;
+		}
+		if (start != crash_base) {

Open-coded crap violation error!

Seriously, these kinds of open-coded loops are *never* acceptable, since
they are really "let's violate the interface by making it do something
it wasn't intended to do" -- it means we need a new interface.

Alternatively, if we really need the lowest possible address, why do we
need to search?

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-27 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1909915255.2046011285586388234.JavaMail.root@zmail06.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
2010-09-27 11:21 ` kexec load failure introduced by "x86, memblock: Replace e820_/_early string with memblock_" caiqian
2010-09-27 11:21   ` caiqian
2010-09-27 22:22   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-27 22:22     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-27 22:50     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-09-27 22:50       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-27 23:20       ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-27 23:20         ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-27 23:26         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-27 23:26           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-27 23:32           ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-27 23:32             ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-27 23:34             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-27 23:34               ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-27 23:41               ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-27 23:41                 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-28  0:53                 ` Vivek Goyal
2010-09-28  0:53                   ` Vivek Goyal
2010-09-28  2:41                   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-28  2:41                     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-28  3:46                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-28  3:46                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-28  7:14                     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-28  7:14                       ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-28 14:01                       ` Vivek Goyal
2010-09-28 14:01                         ` Vivek Goyal
2010-09-28 13:54                     ` Vivek Goyal
2010-09-28 13:54                       ` Vivek Goyal
     [not found] <1346740216.2003261285553562018.JavaMail.root@zmail06.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
2010-09-27  2:42 ` caiqian
2010-09-27  2:42   ` caiqian
2010-09-27  5:58   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-27  5:58     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-27  6:31   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-27  6:31     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-27  9:16     ` CAI Qian
2010-09-27  9:16       ` CAI Qian
     [not found] <1834151968.1996101285512089968.JavaMail.root@zmail06.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
2010-09-26 14:47 ` caiqian
2010-09-26 14:47   ` caiqian
2010-09-26 19:42   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-26 19:42     ` Yinghai Lu
     [not found] <1614106428.1991831285470588200.JavaMail.root@zmail06.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
2010-09-26  3:11 ` caiqian
2010-09-26  3:11   ` caiqian
2010-09-26  6:44   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-26  6:44     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-26  6:55     ` CAI Qian
2010-09-26  6:55       ` CAI Qian
2010-09-26  6:56       ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-26  6:56         ` Yinghai Lu
2010-09-26 10:37         ` CAI Qian
2010-09-26 10:37           ` CAI Qian

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