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[PATCHv22 13/16] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator

From: m.szyprowski@samsung.com (Marek Szyprowski)
Date: 2012-02-22 16:27:03
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Hello,

On Tuesday, February 21, 2012 10:30 PM Aaro Koskinen wrote:
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
quoted
+/**
+ * dma_release_from_contiguous() - release allocated pages
+ * @dev:   Pointer to device for which the pages were allocated.
+ * @pages: Allocated pages.
+ * @count: Number of allocated pages.
+ *
+ * This function releases memory allocated by dma_alloc_from_contiguous().
+ * It returns false when provided pages do not belong to contiguous area and
+ * true otherwise.
+ */
+bool dma_release_from_contiguous(struct device *dev, struct page *pages,
+				 int count)
+{
+	struct cma *cma = dev_get_cma_area(dev);
+	unsigned long pfn;
+
+	if (!cma || !pages)
+		return false;
+
+	pr_debug("%s(page %p)\n", __func__, (void *)pages);
+
+	pfn = page_to_pfn(pages);
+
+	if (pfn < cma->base_pfn || pfn >= cma->base_pfn + cma->count)
+		return false;
+
+	VM_BUG_ON(pfn + count > cma->base_pfn);
Are you sure the VM_BUG_ON() condition is correct here?
Thanks for pointing this bug. '+ cma->count' is missing in the second part.

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski
Samsung Poland R&D Center
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