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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE: Do not call bh_phys() on buffers with invalid b_page.
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:00:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030129150000.GD31566@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1043852266.1690.63.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr>

On Wed, Jan 29 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Hi, I just spotted this in the patch (but the code itself have been
> there since 2.4.20-pre2).
> 
> > -			if (((unsigned long) bh->b_data) < PAGE_SIZE)
> > +			if ((unsigned long) bh->b_data < PAGE_SIZE)
> 
> Didn't you meant PAGE_OFFSET and not PAGE_SIZE here ? I fail to see why
> it would make any sense to compare a virtual address to PAGE_SIZE ;)

For highmem buffer heads, b_data is the offset into the page. Does look
confusing, I'll give you that :-)

The test should most likely just be removed, if anything.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-29 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-29 14:57 [PATCH] IDE: Do not call bh_phys() on buffers with invalid b_page Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-29 15:00 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2003-01-29 15:20   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-29 15:22     ` Jens Axboe
2003-01-29 15:26       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-29 15:38         ` Jens Axboe
2003-01-29 15:44           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-29 15:47             ` Jens Axboe

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