On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 15:15 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 11:21 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > will used by x86 memblock_x86_find_in_range_node and nobootmem replacement
> >
> > -v2: use 0 instead -1ULL, Suggested by Linus, so we don't need cast them later to unsigned long
>
> The patch in its current form is a NAK.
>
> You can't just do those two things in one commit.
>
> If we're going to switch LMB errors to always be 0, we need to ensure we
> cannot realistically hand out 0 as a result of lmb_alloc().
>
> I'll cook up a patch to do that.
BTW. After that, maybe send a patch completely removing
MEMBLOCK_ERROR ?
I find 0 to be self-explanatory enough.
Cheers,
Ben.
> Ben.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > include/linux/memblock.h | 1 +
> > mm/memblock.c | 2 --
> > 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/memblock.h b/include/linux/memblock.h
> > index 70bc467..89749c4 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/memblock.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/memblock.h
> > @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
> > #include <asm/memblock.h>
> >
> > #define INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS 128
> > +#define MEMBLOCK_ERROR 0
> >
> > struct memblock_region {
> > phys_addr_t base;
> > diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
> > index 796ef8c..3d0a754 100644
> > --- a/mm/memblock.c
> > +++ b/mm/memblock.c
> > @@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ int memblock_can_resize;
> > static struct memblock_region memblock_memory_init_regions[INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS + 1];
> > struct memblock_region memblock_reserved_init_regions[INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS + 1];
> >
> > -#define MEMBLOCK_ERROR (~(phys_addr_t)0)
> > -
> > /* inline so we don't get a warning when pr_debug is compiled out */
> > static inline const char *memblock_type_name(struct memblock_type *type)
> > {
>
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