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 16:47:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030129154706.GG31566@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1043855055.536.81.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr>
On Wed, Jan 29 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 16:38, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > No, any b_data < PAGE_OFFSET is not wrong, that's the point. For highmem
> > b_page, b_data will be the offset into the page. So it could be 2048,
> > for instance.
>
> In the other if() case, yes ;)
b_data < PAGE_SIZE would not be a bug in the other case, if
PageHighmem(bh->b_page). If !PageHighmem(bh->b_page), then b_data <
PAGE_OFFSET would be a bug, yes.
But lets drop this now, it's getting way silly! :)
> All I wanted to spot is that < PAGE_OFFSET would catch the PAGE_SIZE bug
> as well ;) But that's not a problem in real life anyway it seems.
That is correct, but as I said it's nice to separate them because it's
two bugs really. And the one I wanted to catch was number 1, and that's
the one I put in. EOD?
--
Jens Axboe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-29 15:38 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
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 [this message]
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