On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 01:35:42PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > > unanswered question: why are the buffer sizes here different ? which is correct? > > > Given the current set of mempolicy modes and flags, it's 34, but this can > change if new modes or flags are added with longer names. I see no reason > why shmem shouldn't round up to the nearest power-of-2 of 64 like it > already does, but 50 is certainly safe as well in task_mmu.c. Ok. I'll leave that for now. > > diff -durpN '--exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude' src/git-trees/kernel/linux/fs/proc/task_mmu.c linux-dj/fs/proc/task_mmu.c > > --- src/git-trees/kernel/linux/fs/proc/task_mmu.c 2012-05-31 22:32:46.778150675 -0400 > > +++ linux-dj/fs/proc/task_mmu.c 2012-10-04 19:31:41.269988984 -0400 > > @@ -1162,6 +1162,7 @@ static int show_numa_map(struct seq_file > > struct mm_walk walk = {}; > > struct mempolicy *pol; > > int n; > > + int ret; > > char buffer[50]; > > > > if (!mm) > > @@ -1178,7 +1179,11 @@ static int show_numa_map(struct seq_file > > walk.mm = mm; > > > > pol = get_vma_policy(proc_priv->task, vma, vma->vm_start); > > - mpol_to_str(buffer, sizeof(buffer), pol, 0); > > + memset(buffer, 0, sizeof(buffer)); > > + ret = mpol_to_str(buffer, sizeof(buffer), pol, 0); > > + if (ret < 0) > > + return 0; > > We should need the mpol_cond_put(pol) here before returning. good catch. I'll respin the patch later with this changed. thanks, Dave -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>