Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 4 authors, 2014-08-20

Re: [PATCH v2] PC, KVM, CMA: Fix regression caused by wrong get_order() use

From: Alexander Graf <hidden>
Date: 2014-08-14 13:41:10
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On 14.08.14 07:13, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
Alexey Kardashevskiy [off-list ref] writes:
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fc95ca7284bc54953165cba76c3228bd2cdb9591 claims that there is no
functional change but this is not true as it calls get_order() (which
takes bytes) where it should have called ilog2() and the kernel stops
on VM_BUG_ON().

This replaces get_order() with order_base_2() (round-up version of ilog2).

Suggested-by: Paul Mackerras <redacted>
Cc: Alexander Graf <redacted>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <redacted>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <redacted>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <redacted>
So this affects 3.17?


Alex
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