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Message-Id: <4786586B.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:39:55 +0000
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com>
To: <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Subject: [PATCH] adjust size calculation for get_vm_area() in ioremap()
context
Short of getting a reply on the query why the argument of fls() here is
missing the decrement, here's a patch to add it (reducing the resulting
size when the incoming size is an exact power of two).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- linux-2.6.24-rc7/mm/vmalloc.c 2008-01-10 16:50:54.000000000 +0100
+++ 2.6.24-rc7-vm-ioremap-size/mm/vmalloc.c 2008-01-08 12:35:11.000000000 +0100
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static struct vm_struct *__get_vm_area_n
BUG_ON(in_interrupt());
if (flags & VM_IOREMAP) {
- int bit = fls(size);
+ int bit = fls(size - 1);
if (bit > IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER)
bit = IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER;
--
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