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Message-ID: <CALCETrU6CAFTUi8t8BzGx6jYe6GuzmUfVyVc=HjWbiY81-MmMQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 3 Jan 2013 10:54:44 -0800
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Jorn_Engel <joern@...fs.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/9] mm: make do_mmap_pgoff return populate as a size in
 bytes, not as a bool

On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com> wrote:
> do_mmap_pgoff() rounds up the desired size to the next PAGE_SIZE multiple,
> however there was no equivalent code in mm_populate(), which caused issues.
>
> This could be fixed by introduced the same rounding in mm_populate(),
> however I think it's preferable to make do_mmap_pgoff() return populate
> as a size rather than as a boolean, so we don't have to duplicate the
> size rounding logic in mm_populate().
>
> Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>

This appears to fix my hangs.

--Andy
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