Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm/vmalloc: use wrapper function get_vm_area_size to caculate size of vm area

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On 08/14/2013 05:31 PM, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index 93d3182..553368c 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -1553,7 +1553,7 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  	unsigned int nr_pages, array_size, i;
>  	gfp_t nested_gfp = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) | __GFP_ZERO;
>  
> -	nr_pages = (area->size - PAGE_SIZE) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> +	nr_pages = get_vm_area_size(area) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>  	array_size = (nr_pages * sizeof(struct page *));

I guess this is fine, but I do see this same kind of use in a couple of
other spots in the kernel.  Was there a reason for doing this in this
one spot but ignoring the others?

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