linux-kernel - Re: trivial clean up to zlc

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Date:	Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:05:44 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>,
	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: trivial clean up to zlc_setup

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:19:39 +0900 KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I found very small bug during review mel's 2 zonelist patch series.
> 
> this patch is trivial clean up.
> jiffies subtraction may cause overflow problem.
> it shold be used time_after().
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
> CC: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>
> CC: Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: b/mm/page_alloc.c
> ===================================================================
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c   2008-02-18 17:17:25.000000000 +0900
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c   2008-02-29 15:17:03.000000000 +0900
> @@ -1294,7 +1294,7 @@ static nodemask_t *zlc_setup(struct zone
>         if (!zlc)
>                 return NULL;
> 
> -       if (jiffies - zlc->last_full_zap > 1 * HZ) {
> +       if (time_after(jiffies, zlc->last_full_zap + HZ)) {
>                 bitmap_zero(zlc->fullzones, MAX_ZONES_PER_ZONELIST);
>                 zlc->last_full_zap = jiffies;
>         }

That's a mainline bug.  Also present in 2.6.24, maybe earlier.

But it's a minor one - we'll fix it up one second later (yes?)
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