linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][patch 1/5] mm: Revert "mm: fix boundary checking in free_bootmem

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Message-ID: <86802c440804161049l1e4bc00cjb51b0a4267dd2adc@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:49:53 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@...urebad.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Linux MM" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Yasunori Goto" <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>,
	"KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][patch 1/5] mm: Revert "mm: fix boundary checking in free_bootmem_core"

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de> wrote:
> This reverts commit 5a982cbc7b3fe6cf72266f319286f29963c71b9e.
>
>  The intention behind this patch was to make the free_bootmem()
>  interface more robust with regards to the specified range and to let
>  it operate on multiple node setups as well.
>
>  However, it made free_bootmem_core()
>
>   1. handle bogus node/memory-range combination input by just
>      returning early without informing the callsite or screaming BUG()
>      as it did before
>   2. round slightly out of node-range values to the node boundaries
>      instead of treating them as the invalid parameters they are
>
>  This was partially done to abuse free_bootmem_core() for node
>  iteration in free_bootmem (just feeding it every node on the box and
>  let it figure out what it wants to do with it) instead of looking up
>  the proper node before the call to free_bootmem_core().
>
>  It also affects free_bootmem_node() which relies on
>  free_bootmem_core() and on its sanity checks now removed.
>
>  Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de>
>  CC: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
>  CC: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
>  CC: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>
>  CC: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
>  CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
>  CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
>  CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>  ---
>   mm/bootmem.c |   25 ++++++-------------------
>   1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
>  diff --git a/mm/bootmem.c b/mm/bootmem.c
>  index 2ccea70..f6ff433 100644
>  --- a/mm/bootmem.c
>  +++ b/mm/bootmem.c
>  @@ -125,7 +125,6 @@ static int __init reserve_bootmem_core(bootmem_data_t *bdata,
>         BUG_ON(!size);
>         BUG_ON(PFN_DOWN(addr) >= bdata->node_low_pfn);
>         BUG_ON(PFN_UP(addr + size) > bdata->node_low_pfn);
>  -       BUG_ON(addr < bdata->node_boot_start);
>
>         sidx = PFN_DOWN(addr - bdata->node_boot_start);
>         eidx = PFN_UP(addr + size - bdata->node_boot_start);

can you keep the change with reserve_bootmem_core? another patch
regarding reserve_bootmem will update it further.

YH
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