linux-kernel - maps2-add-proc-kpagemap-interface.patch

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Message-Id: <1183895162.6005.338.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:46:02 +1000
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: maps2-add-proc-kpagemap-interface.patch

> + * Each entry is a pair of unsigned longs representing the
> + * corresponding physical page, the first containing the page flags
> + * and the second containing the page use count.
> + *
> + * The first 4 bytes of this file form a simple header:
> + *
> + * first byte:   0 for big endian, 1 for little
> + * second byte:  page shift (eg 12 for 4096 byte pages)
> + * third byte:   entry size in bytes (currently either 4 or 8)
> + * fourth byte:  header size

Hi Matt,

	This comment is worded badly: if the "entry is a pair" then "entry size
in bytes" would be 8 or 16.

> +	pfn = src / KPMSIZE - 1;
> +	count = min_t(size_t, count, ((max_pfn + 1) * KPMSIZE) - src);

Is min_t required here?  KPMSIZE is a sizeof() expression, so I'd expect
both sides to be type-compatible...

> +	page = (unsigned long *)__get_free_page(GFP_USER);
> +	if (!page)
> +		return -ENOMEM;

An explicit "struct kpagemap { unsigned long flags, count; };" would
simplify your iteration, clear up the code and get rid of the KPMSIZE &
KPMMASK macros.

But again I'd query the necessity of this cache page at all.

> +		if (copy_to_user(buf, page, chunk)) {
> +			ret = -EFAULT;
> +			break;
> +		}
> +		ret += chunk;
> +		src += chunk;
> +		buf += chunk;
> +		count -= chunk;
> +		cond_resched();

No cond_resched() needed here, either.

Cheers,
Rusty.

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