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Message-Id: <20070308162944.FB7F.Y-GOTO@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:39:43 +0900
From:	Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Subject: [PATCH] fix BUG_ON check at move_freepages() (Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm2)


Hello.

The BUG_ON() check at move_freepages() is wrong.
Its end_page is start_page + MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES. So, it can be 
next zone. BUG_ON() should check "end_page - 1".

This is fix of 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 for it.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>

---
 mm/page_alloc.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: current_test/mm/page_alloc.c
===================================================================
--- current_test.orig/mm/page_alloc.c	2007-03-08 15:44:10.000000000 +0900
+++ current_test/mm/page_alloc.c	2007-03-08 16:17:29.000000000 +0900
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ int move_freepages(struct zone *zone,
 	unsigned long order;
 	int blocks_moved = 0;
 
-	BUG_ON(page_zone(start_page) != page_zone(end_page));
+	BUG_ON(page_zone(start_page) != page_zone(end_page - 1));
 
 	for (page = start_page; page < end_page;) {
 		if (!PageBuddy(page)) {

-- 
Yasunori Goto 


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