From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: guohanjun@huawei.com (Hanjun Guo) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 17:44:28 +0800 Subject: Suspicious error for CMA stress test In-Reply-To: <20160314071803.GA28094@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE> References: <56D93ABE.9070406@huawei.com> <20160307043442.GB24602@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE> <56DD38E7.3050107@huawei.com> <56DDCB86.4030709@redhat.com> <56DE30CB.7020207@huawei.com> <56DF7B28.9060108@huawei.com> <56E2FB5C.1040602@suse.cz> <20160314064925.GA27587@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE> <56E662E8.700@suse.cz> <20160314071803.GA28094@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE> Message-ID: <56E92AFC.9050208@huawei.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 2016/3/14 15:18, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 08:06:16AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> On 03/14/2016 07:49 AM, Joonsoo Kim wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 06:07:40PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >>>> On 03/11/2016 04:00 PM, Joonsoo Kim wrote: >>>> >>>> How about something like this? Just and idea, probably buggy (off-by-one etc.). >>>> Should keep away cost from >>> relatively fewer >pageblock_order iterations. >>> Hmm... I tested this and found that it's code size is a little bit >>> larger than mine. I'm not sure why this happens exactly but I guess it would be >>> related to compiler optimization. In this case, I'm in favor of my >>> implementation because it looks like well abstraction. It adds one >>> unlikely branch to the merge loop but compiler would optimize it to >>> check it once. >> I would be surprised if compiler optimized that to check it once, as >> order increases with each loop iteration. But maybe it's smart >> enough to do something like I did by hand? Guess I'll check the >> disassembly. > Okay. I used following slightly optimized version and I need to > add 'max_order = min_t(unsigned int, MAX_ORDER, pageblock_order + 1)' > to yours. Please consider it, too. Hmm, this one is not work, I still can see the bug is there after applying this patch, did I miss something? Thanks Hanjun