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Date:	Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:23:01 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, fengguang.wu@...el.com,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	andi.kleen@...el.com, Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] [BUGFIX] memory hotplug: fix next block
	calculation in is_removable

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 10:32:44AM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
> 
> next_active_pageblock() is for finding next _used_ freeblock. It skips
> several blocks when it finds there are a chunk of free pages lager than
> pageblock. But it has 2 bugs.
> 
>   1. We have no lock. page_order(page) - pageblock_order can be minus.
>   2. pageblocks_stride += is wrong. it should skip page_order(p) of pages.
> 
> Changelog: 2010/09/07
>  - fix range check of order returned by page_order().
> 
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>

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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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