linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] PC, KVM, CMA: Fix regression caused by wrong get

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Date:	Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:44:58 +0900
From:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
To:	Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] PC, KVM, CMA: Fix regression caused by wrong
 get_order() use

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 03:03:07PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> 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 <paulus@...ba.org>
> Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>
> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>

Sorry for my fault. :(

Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>

Thanks.
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