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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Steven Walter <srwalter@yahoo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] v2.5.1-pre9-00_kvec.diff
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:37:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011211223711.C17550@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011211162639.F6878@redhat.com> <20011211213515.D29224@hapablap.dyn.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011211213515.D29224@hapablap.dyn.dhs.org>; from srwalter@yahoo.com on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:35:15PM -0600

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:35:15PM -0600, Steven Walter wrote:
> > +	nr_pages = (ptr + len + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> > +	nr_pages -= ptr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> 
> Isn't this the same as
> 	nr_pages = (len + PAGE_SIZE -1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;

No.

> ?  Or am I missing something?

Yes.  Pointers may not be page aligned.

		-ben
-- 
Fish.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-12  3:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-11 21:26 [PATCH] v2.5.1-pre9-00_kvec.diff Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-11 23:33 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-12-11 23:41   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-12 21:24   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-13 16:11     ` Hugh Dickins
2001-12-12  3:35 ` Steven Walter
2001-12-12  3:37   ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2001-12-12 16:04     ` Roman Zippel
2001-12-12 18:47 ` [PATCH] v2.5.1-pre10-01_kvec.diff Benjamin LaHaise

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