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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: jiang.liu@huawei.com, wujianguo@huawei.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	wency@cn.fujitsu.com, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com,
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	jaegeuk.hanse@gmail.com, tony.luck@intel.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] page_alloc: add movable_memmap kernel parameter
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:35:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130114143512.b961211e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1358154925-21537-3-git-send-email-tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:15:22 +0800
Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> This patch adds functions to parse movablecore_map boot option. Since the
> option could be specified more then once, all the maps will be stored in
> the global variable movablecore_map.map array.
> 
> And also, we keep the array in monotonic increasing order by start_pfn.
> And merge all overlapped ranges.
> 
> ...
>
> +#define MOVABLECORE_MAP_MAX MAX_NUMNODES
> +struct movablecore_entry {
> +	unsigned long start_pfn;    /* start pfn of memory segment */
> +	unsigned long end_pfn;      /* end pfn of memory segment */

It is important to tell readers whether an "end" is inclusive or
exclusive.  ie: does it point at the last byte, or one beyond it?

By reading the code I see it is exclusive, so...

--- a/include/linux/mm.h~page_alloc-add-movable_memmap-kernel-parameter-fix
+++ a/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@ extern void sparse_memory_present_with_a
 #define MOVABLECORE_MAP_MAX MAX_NUMNODES
 struct movablecore_entry {
 	unsigned long start_pfn;    /* start pfn of memory segment */
-	unsigned long end_pfn;      /* end pfn of memory segment */
+	unsigned long end_pfn;      /* end pfn of memory segment (exclusive) */
 };
 
 struct movablecore_map {

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-14 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-14  9:15 [PATCH v5 0/5] Add movablecore_map boot option Tang Chen
2013-01-14  9:15 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] x86: get pg_data_t's memory from other node Tang Chen
2013-01-14  9:15 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] page_alloc: add movable_memmap kernel parameter Tang Chen
2013-01-14 22:35   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2013-01-14  9:15 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] page_alloc: Introduce zone_movable_limit[] to keep movable limit for nodes Tang Chen
2013-01-14  9:15 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] page_alloc: Make movablecore_map has higher priority Tang Chen
2013-01-14  9:15 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] page_alloc: Bootmem limit with movablecore_map Tang Chen
2013-01-14 17:31 ` [PATCH v5 0/5] Add movablecore_map boot option H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-14 22:34   ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-14 22:41     ` Luck, Tony
2013-01-14 22:46       ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-16  6:25         ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2013-01-16 21:29           ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-16 22:01             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-01-16 23:00               ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-17 20:27                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-01-16 22:52             ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-17  1:49               ` Tang Chen
2013-01-17 20:20                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-01-17  5:08               ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2013-01-17  6:03                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-17 16:30                   ` Luck, Tony
2013-01-17 20:28                     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-01-18  6:05                       ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2013-01-18  6:25                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-18  7:38                           ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2013-01-18  8:08                             ` Tang Chen
2013-01-18  9:23                               ` li guang
2013-01-18 18:29                                 ` Luck, Tony
2013-01-19  1:06                                   ` Jiang Liu
2013-01-19  7:52                                     ` Chen Gong
2013-01-21  7:36                                   ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2013-01-15  1:23       ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2013-01-15  3:44         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-15  4:04           ` Luck, Tony
2013-01-15  0:05     ` Toshi Kani

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