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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 28/31] memblock: Export MEMBLOCK_ERROR again
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    On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 15:15 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
    > On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 11:21 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
    > > will used by x86 memblock_x86_find_in_range_node and nobootmem replacement
    > >
    > > -v2: use 0 instead -1ULL, Suggested by Linus, so we don't need cast them later to unsigned long
    >
    > The patch in its current form is a NAK.
    >
    > You can't just do those two things in one commit.
    >
    > If we're going to switch LMB errors to always be 0, we need to ensure we
    > cannot realistically hand out 0 as a result of lmb_alloc().
    >
    > I'll cook up a patch to do that.

    BTW. After that, maybe send a patch completely removing
    MEMBLOCK_ERROR ?

    I find 0 to be self-explanatory enough.

    Cheers,
    Ben.

    > Ben.
    >
    > > Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
    > > ---
    > > include/linux/memblock.h | 1 +
    > > mm/memblock.c | 2 --
    > > 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
    > >
    > > diff --git a/include/linux/memblock.h b/include/linux/memblock.h
    > > index 70bc467..89749c4 100644
    > > --- a/include/linux/memblock.h
    > > +++ b/include/linux/memblock.h
    > > @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
    > > #include <asm/memblock.h>
    > >
    > > #define INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS 128
    > > +#define MEMBLOCK_ERROR 0
    > >
    > > struct memblock_region {
    > > phys_addr_t base;
    > > diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
    > > index 796ef8c..3d0a754 100644
    > > --- a/mm/memblock.c
    > > +++ b/mm/memblock.c
    > > @@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ int memblock_can_resize;
    > > static struct memblock_region memblock_memory_init_regions[INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS + 1];
    > > struct memblock_region memblock_reserved_init_regions[INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS + 1];
    > >
    > > -#define MEMBLOCK_ERROR (~(phys_addr_t)0)
    > > -
    > > /* inline so we don't get a warning when pr_debug is compiled out */
    > > static inline const char *memblock_type_name(struct memblock_type *type)
    > > {
    >




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