linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add nid sanity on alloc_pages

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Message-Id: <20070713015457.326f0081.pj@sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:54:57 -0700
From:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	joe.jin@...cle.com, bill.irwin@...cle.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gurudas.pai@...cle.com,
	zwane@....linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add nid sanity on alloc_pages_node

> Something for the young ...

... ancient self smiles with relief, glad that Andrew is not looking
this way ;).

> We could do this: add a little bitops torture-test and run that
> unconditionally, nice and early.

Good idea.  That would allow for wide spread coverage across all arch's
that they obeyed the rules for the tighter API - find_first_bit returning
exactly N on finding no bits set, before we took the risk of actually
relying on the changed API, by removing those min_t() guards.

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                  Programmer, Linux Scalability
                  Paul Jackson <pj@....com> 1.925.600.0401
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