linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: use zone_end_pfn() instead of zone_start_pfn+spanned

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Date:	Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:15:10 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
Cc:	Cody P Schafer <cody@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: use zone_end_pfn() instead of
 zone_start_pfn+spanned_pages

On Wed, 7 Aug 2013 17:09:56 +0800 Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com> wrote:

> Use "zone_end_pfn()" instead of "zone->zone_start_pfn + zone->spanned_pages".
> Simplify the code, no functional change.

This doesn't compile.

mm/memory_hotplug.c: In function 'shrink_zone_span':
mm/memory_hotplug.c:518: error: called object 'zone_end_pfn' is not a function

>  kernel/power/snapshot.c |   12 ++++++------
>  mm/memory_hotplug.c     |    4 ++--

It's only two files - did you test it?

I couldn't see any vaguely acceptable way of renaming the variables to
fix this, so I did a hack which permits us to keep the current naming.
Any better ideas?

--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c~mm-use-zone_end_pfn-instead-of-zone_start_pfnspanned_pages-fix
+++ a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -514,8 +514,9 @@ static int find_biggest_section_pfn(int
 static void shrink_zone_span(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
 			     unsigned long end_pfn)
 {
-	unsigned long zone_start_pfn =  zone->zone_start_pfn;
-	unsigned long zone_end_pfn = zone_end_pfn(zone);
+	unsigned long zone_start_pfn = zone->zone_start_pfn;
+	unsigned long z = zone_end_pfn(zone); /* zone_end_pfn namespace clash */
+	unsigned long zone_end_pfn = z;
 	unsigned long pfn;
 	struct mem_section *ms;
 	int nid = zone_to_nid(zone);
_

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