From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id g37so1158158rvb.26 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:49:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <86802c440804161049l1e4bc00cjb51b0a4267dd2adc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:49:53 -0700 From: "Yinghai Lu" Subject: Re: [RFC][patch 1/5] mm: Revert "mm: fix boundary checking in free_bootmem_core" In-Reply-To: <20080416113718.946786067@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080416113629.947746497@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> <20080416113718.946786067@skyscraper.fehenstaub.lan> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Johannes Weiner Cc: LKML , Linux MM , Andi Kleen , Yasunori Goto , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Ingo Molnar , Christoph Lameter , Andrew Morton List-ID: On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Johannes Weiner wrote: > This reverts commit 5a982cbc7b3fe6cf72266f319286f29963c71b9e. > > The intention behind this patch was to make the free_bootmem() > interface more robust with regards to the specified range and to let > it operate on multiple node setups as well. > > However, it made free_bootmem_core() > > 1. handle bogus node/memory-range combination input by just > returning early without informing the callsite or screaming BUG() > as it did before > 2. round slightly out of node-range values to the node boundaries > instead of treating them as the invalid parameters they are > > This was partially done to abuse free_bootmem_core() for node > iteration in free_bootmem (just feeding it every node on the box and > let it figure out what it wants to do with it) instead of looking up > the proper node before the call to free_bootmem_core(). > > It also affects free_bootmem_node() which relies on > free_bootmem_core() and on its sanity checks now removed. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner > CC: Yinghai Lu > CC: Andi Kleen > CC: Yasunori Goto > CC: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki > CC: Ingo Molnar > CC: Christoph Lameter > CC: Andrew Morton > --- > mm/bootmem.c | 25 ++++++------------------- > 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/bootmem.c b/mm/bootmem.c > index 2ccea70..f6ff433 100644 > --- a/mm/bootmem.c > +++ b/mm/bootmem.c > @@ -125,7 +125,6 @@ static int __init reserve_bootmem_core(bootmem_data_t *bdata, > BUG_ON(!size); > BUG_ON(PFN_DOWN(addr) >= bdata->node_low_pfn); > BUG_ON(PFN_UP(addr + size) > bdata->node_low_pfn); > - BUG_ON(addr < bdata->node_boot_start); > > sidx = PFN_DOWN(addr - bdata->node_boot_start); > eidx = PFN_UP(addr + size - bdata->node_boot_start); can you keep the change with reserve_bootmem_core? another patch regarding reserve_bootmem will update it further. YH -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org