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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 15:40:59 +0200
From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
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        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] PC, KVM, CMA: Fix regression caused by wrong get_order()
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On 14.08.14 07:13, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> writes:
>
>> fc95ca7284bc54953165cba76c3228bd2cdb9591 claims that there is no
>> functional change but this is not true as it calls get_order() (which
>> takes bytes) where it should have called ilog2() and the kernel stops
>> on VM_BUG_ON().
>>
>> This replaces get_order() with order_base_2() (round-up version of ilog2).
>>
>> Suggested-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
>> Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
>> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
>> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

So this affects 3.17?


Alex