linux-kernel - Re: md: Fix userspace free

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Date:	Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:15:31 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: Re: md: Fix userspace free_pages() macro

On 12/14/2011 05:34 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> While using etags to find free_pages(), I stumbled across this debug
> definition of free_pages() that is to be used while debugging some raid
> code in userspace. The __get_free_pages() allocates the correct size,
> but the free_pages() does not match. free_pages(), like
> __get_free_pages(), takes an order and not a size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> 

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>

	-hpa
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