linux-kernel - Re: Seems the comment of find_next_system

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Date:	Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:02:47 +0800
From:	Wizard <wizarddewhite@...il.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Wizard <wizarddewhite@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: Seems the comment of find_next_system_ram() is not exact

Borislav

Thanks for your reply and for your suggestion to use "git annotate".
I learned a lot from you.

I see the commit by KAMEZAWA. While still not know why he change
code this way to cover the overlap case.

I find the function is introduced in 2842f11419704f8707fffc82e10d2263427fc130.
While the mm/memory_hotplug.c is chaged during this period.
If I want to view the code at that moment, I should use git checkout
2842f11419704f8707fffc82e10d2263427fc130?



2011/9/25, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 09:40:52PM +0800, Wizard wrote:
>> Hi, Experts
>>
>> I am a newbie for linux kernel. I just read the code of
>> find_next_system_ram() in kernel/resource.c
>>
>> I think the comment of this function is not exact. This says "Finds
>> the lowest memory reosurce exists within [res->start.res->end)".
>>
>> While I think the code is to find the lowest memory resource overlaps
>> [res->start, res->end).
>>
>> 308:      if ((p->end >= start) && (p->start < end))
>>
>> If I am not correct, please let me know. :)
>
> Right,
>
> hint for the future, do a "git annotate" on the file containing that
> code - the patch adding the piece of code might (err, and should!) have
> a verbose commit message explaining the situation. And it seems it does
> have something to a degree, here's another hint:
>
> 58c1b5b079071
>
> :-)
>
> But I agree that the comment over the function could use some more
> verbosity on why the function needs to handle overlapping resources and
> sections. Let's ask the author.
>
>> BTW, I find the "reosurce" is a typo.
>
> Yes, he could fix it while explaining the overlap :-).
>
> HTH.
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
>


-- 
Wizard
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