linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm/vmalloc: use wrapper function get_vm_area

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Message-ID: <520D18F7.5000801@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:07:51 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm/vmalloc: use wrapper function get_vm_area_size
 to caculate size of vm area

On 08/14/2013 05:31 PM, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index 93d3182..553368c 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -1553,7 +1553,7 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  	unsigned int nr_pages, array_size, i;
>  	gfp_t nested_gfp = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) | __GFP_ZERO;
>  
> -	nr_pages = (area->size - PAGE_SIZE) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> +	nr_pages = get_vm_area_size(area) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>  	array_size = (nr_pages * sizeof(struct page *));

I guess this is fine, but I do see this same kind of use in a couple of
other spots in the kernel.  Was there a reason for doing this in this
one spot but ignoring the others?
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