Thread (38 messages) 38 messages, 4 authors, 2012-06-29

Re: [PATCH for -3.5] memblock: free allocated memblock_reserved_regions later

From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: 2012-06-29 18:40:11
Also in: lkml

Hello, Yinghai.

Just one nitpick.

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:27:57AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
 /**
  * memblock_double_array - double the size of the memblock regions array
  * @type: memblock type of the regions array being doubled
@@ -204,6 +192,7 @@ static int __init_memblock memblock_doub
 						phys_addr_t new_area_size)
 {
 	struct memblock_region *new_array, *old_array;
+	phys_addr_t old_alloc_size, new_alloc_size;
 	phys_addr_t old_size, new_size, addr;
 	int use_slab = slab_is_available();
 	int *in_slab;
@@ -217,6 +206,12 @@ static int __init_memblock memblock_doub
 	/* Calculate new doubled size */
 	old_size = type->max * sizeof(struct memblock_region);
 	new_size = old_size << 1;
+	/*
+	 * We need to allocated new one align to PAGE_SIZE,
+	 *  so late could free them completely.
An extra space and probably "so we can free them completely later"
fits better.

Thank you!

-- 
tejun

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