On Thu 23-08-12 16:40:13, Li Haifeng wrote:
> From d7cd78f9d71a5c9ddeed02724558096f0bb4508a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Haifeng Li <omy...@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:27:19 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] Fixup the page of buddy_higher address's calculation
Some general questions:
Any word about the change? Is it really that obvious? Why do you think the
current state is incorrect? How did you find out?
And more specific below:
> Signed-off-by: Haifeng Li <omy...@gmail.com>
> ---
> mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index ddbc17d..5588f68 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page,
> combined_idx = buddy_idx & page_idx;
> higher_page = page + (combined_idx - page_idx);
> buddy_idx = __find_buddy_index(combined_idx, order + 1);
> - higher_buddy = page + (buddy_idx - combined_idx);
> + higher_buddy = page + (buddy_idx - page_idx);
We are finding buddy index for combined_idx so why should we use
page_idx here?
> if (page_is_buddy(higher_page, higher_buddy, order + 1)) {
> list_add_tail(&page->lru,
>
> &zone->free_area[order].free_list[migratetype]);
> --
> 1.7.5.4
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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