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Date:	Fri, 17 May 2013 08:45:39 +0900
From:	HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	"riel@...hat.com" <riel@...hat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, jingbai.ma@...com,
	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	lisa.mitchell@...com, "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	kumagai-atsushi@....nes.nec.co.jp,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>, cpw@....com,
	vgoyal@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/8] vmalloc: make find_vm_area check in range

(2013/05/16 6:37), KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 5:06 AM, HATAYAMA Daisuke
> <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> Currently, __find_vmap_area searches for the kernel VM area starting
>> at a given address. This patch changes this behavior so that it
>> searches for the kernel VM area to which the address belongs. This
>> change is needed by remap_vmalloc_range_partial to be introduced in
>> later patch that receives any position of kernel VM area as target
>> address.
>>
>> This patch changes the condition (addr > va->va_start) to the
>> equivalent (addr >= va->va_end) by taking advantage of the fact that
>> each kernel VM area is non-overlapping.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>
>> ---
>>
>>   mm/vmalloc.c |    2 +-
>>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
>> index d365724..3875fa2 100644
>> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
>> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
>> @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ static struct vmap_area *__find_vmap_area(unsigned long addr)
>>                  va = rb_entry(n, struct vmap_area, rb_node);
>>                  if (addr < va->va_start)
>>                          n = n->rb_left;
>> -               else if (addr > va->va_start)
>> +               else if (addr >= va->va_end)
>>                          n = n->rb_right;
>
> OK. This is natural definition. Looks good.
>
> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>

Thanks for your reviewing. Could you or other someone review the next 
5/8 patch too? It also changes vmalloc and cc people's review is needed.

-- 
Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke

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