Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 3 authors, 2021-03-30

Re: [PATCH] mm: change size_t to unsigned int for cma_alloc

From: David Hildenbrand <hidden>
Date: 2021-03-30 07:59:22
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On 29.03.21 22:12, Minchan Kim wrote:
On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 07:44:31PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:25:53AM -0700, Minchan Kim wrote:
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size_t in cma_alloc is confusing since it makes people think
it's byte count, not pages. Fix it.
i think it has to be unsigned long.

67a2e213e7e937c41c52ab5bc46bf3f4de469f6e
Right.

Fortunately, we don't have such large allocations yet via 
CMA/alloc_contig_range
Thanks for the pinter. I wanted to have the smallest change.
The commit leads me to change cma_release, trace_cma_alloc,
cma_clear_bitmap and front_contig_range as well.(Not sure
we have more. Will check).

Ccing david@redhat.com for upcoming changing free_contig_range.
While at it, we might want to convert free_contig_range() to eat
"unsigned long start, unsigned long end" like alloc_contig_range(), 
instead of "unsigned long pfn, unsigned int nr_pages" like 
alloc_contig_pages() ...

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb

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