On Nov 24, 2011, at 6:43 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 15:50 -0500, Becky Bruce wrote:
> 
> .../...
> 
>> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_MM_SLICES
>> -    psize = mmu_get_tsize(get_slice_psize(mm, ea));
>> -    tsize = mmu_get_psize(psize);
>> +    psize = get_slice_psize(mm, ea);
>> +    tsize = mmu_get_tsize(psize);
>>      shift = mmu_psize_defs[psize].shift;
>> #else
>> -    vma = find_vma(mm, ea);
>> -    psize = vma_mmu_pagesize(vma);  /* returns actual size in bytes */
>> -    asm (PPC_CNTLZL "%0,%1" : "=r" (lz) : "r" (psize));
>> -    shift = 31 - lz;
>> -    tsize = 21 - lz;
>> +    psize = vma_mmu_pagesize(find_vma(mm, ea));
>> +    shift = __ilog2(psize);
>> +    tsize = shift - 10;
>> #endif
> 
> Now, I know it was already there and you are just moving it around in
> this patch but come on ... find_vma() here ? Really ? And with no result
> checking nor boundary checking (remember it can return a vma that
> doesn't enclose the address etc....). Now I know in this specific case
> it -should- be safe but still...
> 
> Now, the caller is just doing:
> 
>       book3e_hugetlb_preload(vma->vm_mm, address, *ptep);
> 
> So why not just change the prototype and pass the vma down instead ?

Can we do this on top of the patchset instead of changing the existing patchset?

- k
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