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Date:	Mon, 7 Apr 2008 15:57:29 +0200
From:	"Bert Wesarg" <bert.wesarg@...glemail.com>
To:	"Mike Travis" <travis@....com>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86: modify show_shared_cpu_map in intel_cacheinfo v2

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Mike Travis <travis@....com> wrote:
>  --- linux-2.6.x86.orig/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
>  +++ linux-2.6.x86/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
>  @@ -593,14 +593,17 @@ static ssize_t show_size(struct _cpuid4_
>
>   static ssize_t show_shared_cpu_map(struct _cpuid4_info *this_leaf, char *buf)
>   {
>  +       unsigned long end = ALIGN((unsigned long)buf, PAGE_SIZE);
May I suggest this:

           ptrdiff_t len = PTR_ALIGN(buf + PAGE_SIZE - 1, PAGE_SIZE) - buf;

>  +       if (len == 0)
>  +               len = PAGE_SIZE;
Than this is not necessary.

>  +
>  +       if (len >= 2) {
>  +               n = cpus_scnprintf(buf, len-2, this_leaf->shared_cpu_map);
>  +               buf[n++] = '\n';
>  +               buf[n] = '\0';
>         }
>         return n;
>   }
Apart from my suggestion and the use of cpus_scnprintf I think this patch is ok.

Bert

PS: sorry for the long delay.
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