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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.ibm.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, frankja@linux.ibm.com, thuth@redhat.com,
	cohuck@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v2] s390x: fixing I/O memory allocation
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 11:39:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4828bb9d-6bfe-a9da-51a4-77f4e78f7556@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211111112806.50e4d22a@p-imbrenda>

On 11.11.21 11:28, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 11:14:53 +0100
> David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 11.11.21 11:01, Pierre Morel wrote:
>>> The allocator allocate pages it follows the size must be rounded
>>> to pages before the allocation.
>>>
>>> Fixes: b0fe3988 "s390x: define UV compatible I/O allocation"
>>>   
>>
>> What's the symptom of this? A failing test? Or is this just a pro-activ fix?
> 
> if size < PAGE_SIZE then we would allocate 0, and in general we are
> rounding down instead of up, which is obviously wrong.
> 

I know, but is this fixing a failing test or is this just a pro-activ fix?

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb


  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-11 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-11 10:01 [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v2] s390x: fixing I/O memory allocation Pierre Morel
2021-11-11 10:14 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-11-11 10:28   ` Claudio Imbrenda
2021-11-11 10:39     ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2021-11-11 11:55       ` Pierre Morel
2021-11-11 15:10 ` Janosch Frank
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-11-16 12:26 Pierre Morel
2021-11-16 12:27 ` Pierre Morel

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