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From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Subject: Re: buffer allocation: was: [PATCH v3 3/3] printk: use the lockless
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To: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>, Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>, Paul McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon 2020-06-29 23:57:59, John Ogness wrote:
> On 2020-06-29, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> wrote:
> >> @@ @@ void __init setup_log_buf(int early)
> >> +	prb_init(&printk_rb_dynamic,
> >> +		 new_log_buf, order_base_2(new_log_buf_len),
> >> +		 new_dict_buf, order_base_2(new_log_buf_len),
> >> +		 new_descs, order_base_2(new_descs_count));
> >
> > order_base_2() is safe. But the result might be tat some allocated
> > space is not used.
> >
> > I would prefer to make sure that new_log_buf_len is rounded, e.g.
> > by roundup_pow_of_two(), at the beginning of the function. Then we
> > could use ilog2() here.
> 
> new_log_buf_len can only be set within log_buf_len_update(), and it
> is already doing exactly what you want:
> 
>         if (size)
>                 size = roundup_pow_of_two(size);
>         if (size > log_buf_len)
>                 new_log_buf_len = (unsigned long)size;

I know. I though about repeating this in setup_log_bug() to make it
error proof. But it is not really needed. I do not resist on it.

> I can switch to ilog2() instead of the more conservative order_base_2().

Yes, please change it to ilog2().

Best Regards,
Petr

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