Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:49:07 -0700 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add nid sanity on alloc_pages_node |
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:43:49 -0700 Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:
> > Sigh. What crap. I guess we leave it as-is. > > That matches my conclusion. > > The thought of exposing a bug in some user of this find bit code by > tightening up the API to return == N, not >= N, scares poor little old > me. I can imagine a nasty bug coming from this > > If someone bold enough and strong enough to slay such dragons came > along, I'd gladly cheer them along. But such people are a rare breed, > and probably have bigger dragons to slay first. >
We could do this: add a little bitops torture-test and run that unconditionally, nice and early.
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