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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix get_order()
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:21:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3523.1173205299@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45EDABC8.8040901@zytor.com>

H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> 	if (size <= (1UL << page_shift))
> 		return 0;
> 	else
> 		return __ilog2_u32(size-1)+1-page_shift;

I think you're right.  That'll also defend against the result of __ilog2_u32()
being less than page_shift-1.

I think I can dispense with the page_shift argument.  IIRC __get_order() was
overridden by some arch, but isn't now.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-06 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-06 17:39 [PATCH] Fix get_order() David Howells
2007-03-06 17:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-06 18:21   ` David Howells [this message]
2007-03-06 18:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-06 18:51   ` David Howells
2007-03-07  3:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-07 11:43   ` David Howells
2007-03-07 16:02     ` ALIGN via ilog2 without gccisms (Re: [PATCH] Fix get_order()) Oleg Verych
2007-03-07 16:38       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-07 17:24         ` Oleg Verych
2007-03-07 18:05           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-09 23:13         ` ALIGN " Oleg Verych
2007-03-09 23:15           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-10  0:31             ` Oleg Verych
2007-03-10  8:01         ` ALIGN Oleg Verych

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