linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] percpu: fix starting offset for chunk statistics traversal

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Date:   Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:46:27 -0700
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@...il.com>
Cc:     Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Luis Henriques <lhenriques@...e.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] percpu: fix starting offset for chunk statistics
 traversal

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 04:34:59PM -0500, Dennis Zhou wrote:
> This patch fixes the starting offset used when scanning chunks to
> compute the chunk statistics. The value start_offset (and end_offset)
> are managed in bytes while the traversal occurs over bits. Thus for the
> reserved and dynamic chunk, it may incorrectly skip over the initial
> allocations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@...il.com>

Applied to percpu/for-4.14-fixes.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun