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SubjectRe: [RFC][patch 1/5] mm: Revert "mm: fix boundary checking in free_bootmem_core"
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> wrote:
> This reverts commit 5a982cbc7b3fe6cf72266f319286f29963c71b9e.
>
> The intention behind this patch was to make the free_bootmem()
> interface more robust with regards to the specified range and to let
> it operate on multiple node setups as well.
>
> However, it made free_bootmem_core()
>
> 1. handle bogus node/memory-range combination input by just
> returning early without informing the callsite or screaming BUG()
> as it did before
> 2. round slightly out of node-range values to the node boundaries
> instead of treating them as the invalid parameters they are
>
> This was partially done to abuse free_bootmem_core() for node
> iteration in free_bootmem (just feeding it every node on the box and
> let it figure out what it wants to do with it) instead of looking up
> the proper node before the call to free_bootmem_core().
>
> It also affects free_bootmem_node() which relies on
> free_bootmem_core() and on its sanity checks now removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
> CC: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
> CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
> CC: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
> CC: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
> mm/bootmem.c | 25 ++++++-------------------
> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/bootmem.c b/mm/bootmem.c
> index 2ccea70..f6ff433 100644
> --- a/mm/bootmem.c
> +++ b/mm/bootmem.c
> @@ -125,7 +125,6 @@ static int __init reserve_bootmem_core(bootmem_data_t *bdata,
> BUG_ON(!size);
> BUG_ON(PFN_DOWN(addr) >= bdata->node_low_pfn);
> BUG_ON(PFN_UP(addr + size) > bdata->node_low_pfn);
> - BUG_ON(addr < bdata->node_boot_start);
>
> sidx = PFN_DOWN(addr - bdata->node_boot_start);
> eidx = PFN_UP(addr + size - bdata->node_boot_start);

can you keep the change with reserve_bootmem_core? another patch
regarding reserve_bootmem will update it further.

YH


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