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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: joe.jin@oracle.com, bill.irwin@oracle.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gurudas.pai@oracle.com,
	zwane@arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add nid sanity on alloc_pages_node
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:43:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070713014349.a8305231.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070713013819.0f8bd1ea.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

> Sigh.  What crap.  I guess we leave it as-is.

That matches my conclusion.

The thought of exposing a bug in some user of this find bit code by
tightening up the API to return == N, not >= N, scares poor little old
me.  I can imagine a nasty bug coming from this

If someone bold enough and strong enough to slay such dragons came
along, I'd gladly cheer them along.  But such people are a rare breed,
and probably have bigger dragons to slay first.

-- 
                  I won't rest till it's the best ...
                  Programmer, Linux Scalability
                  Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.925.600.0401

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-13  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-13  2:45 [PATCH] Add nid sanity on alloc_pages_node Joe Jin
2007-07-13  5:18 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-13  6:40   ` Joe Jin
2007-07-13  6:49     ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-13  6:57       ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-13  8:29         ` Paul Jackson
2007-07-13  8:38           ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-13  8:43             ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2007-07-13  8:49               ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-13  8:54                 ` Paul Jackson
2007-07-13 12:48                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-13  8:03       ` Joe Jin
2007-07-13  8:15         ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-13 12:18           ` Joe Jin
2007-07-13 12:42             ` Paul Jackson
2007-07-14 17:40             ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-07-14 18:04               ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-14 20:47                 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-07-13  8:04       ` gurudas pai
2007-07-13  8:19         ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-13 12:37           ` gurudas pai
2007-07-13  8:37       ` Joe Jin
2007-07-13  8:44         ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-17 15:04   ` Hugh Dickins
2007-07-17 16:32     ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-17 17:26       ` Hugh Dickins
2007-07-17 18:58         ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-17 19:49           ` Hugh Dickins
2007-07-17 20:01             ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-17 20:35               ` Hugh Dickins
2007-07-18  1:40                 ` Joe Jin
2007-07-18  4:49                   ` Hugh Dickins
2007-07-18  5:45                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-18  7:34                       ` Joe Jin
2007-07-18  6:32                     ` Joe Jin
2007-07-18  8:09                     ` Joe Jin
2007-07-18  8:35                       ` Hugh Dickins

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