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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: do not free zero sized per cpu areas
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:42:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA3EFAE.9070004@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BA3CF67.9000107@kernel.org>

On 03/19/2010 12:24 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> 
> This avoids an infinite loop in free_early_partial().
> 
> Add a warning to free_early_partial to catch future problems.

Wouldn't it make more sense to simply make free_early_partial() a noop
for the zero range, instead of pushing all those tests into the callers?
 It still might make sense to have a WARN_ONCE() for a *negative* range,
however...

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-19 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-05 15:03 Infinite loop on boot in free_early_partial due to start==end on tip/master Ian Campbell
2010-03-05 18:16 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-05 19:45   ` Ian Campbell
2010-03-05 19:49   ` [PATCH] x86: do not free zero sized per cpu areas Ian Campbell
2010-03-05 19:51     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-19 19:24   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-19 21:42     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-03-19 22:18   ` [PATCH -v3] " Yinghai Lu
2010-03-19 22:21     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-19 23:24       ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-19 23:29         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-19 23:45           ` [PATCH -v4] " Yinghai Lu
2010-03-20  1:00             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-20  1:59               ` [PATCH -v5] " Yinghai Lu
2010-03-20  2:41                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-20  6:38                   ` [PATCH -v6] " Yinghai Lu
2010-03-20  7:12                     ` Ian Campbell
2010-03-22 17:30                     ` [LKML] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-03-19 23:35         ` [PATCH -v3] " Ian Campbell
2010-03-19 23:43           ` Ian Campbell
2010-03-19 23:43           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-19 18:28 ` Infinite loop on boot in free_early_partial due to start==end on tip/master Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-03-19 19:04   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-19 19:34     ` Ian Campbell
2010-03-19 20:04       ` [LKML] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-03-19 21:17         ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-19 21:37           ` Ian Campbell
2010-03-20  3:37           ` Tejun Heo

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