linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86:aperture

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Date:	Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:08:40 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Wang YanQing <udknight@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86:aperture_64: code pattern clean

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Wang YanQing <udknight@...il.com> wrote:
>
> This patch don't change code function,
> it just do prepare for import the
> memblock_alloc_in_range to do the code pattern
> which looks like below in one function:
>
> memblock_find_in_range()
> follow by
> memblock_reserve()
>
> Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@...il.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
> index d5fd66f..1523e75 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/aperture_64.c
> @@ -85,9 +85,9 @@ static u32 __init allocate_aperture(void)
>          * memory. Unfortunately we cannot move it up because that would
>          * make the IOMMU useless.
>          */
> -       addr = memblock_find_in_range(GART_MIN_ADDR, GART_MAX_ADDR,
> +       addr = memblock_find_in_range(GART_MIN_ADDR, GART_MAX_ADDR - aper_size,

this change is wrong.

>                                       aper_size, aper_size);
> -       if (!addr || addr + aper_size > GART_MAX_ADDR) {
> +       if (!addr) {

could just drop not needed checking of
    addr + aper_size > GART_MAX_ADDR


Thanks

Yinghai
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