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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tmpfs mempolicy: fix /proc/mounts corrupting memory
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 15:57:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0000013bfbfbb293-ccc455ed-2db6-46e2-8362-dc418bae0def-000000@email.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1301020153090.18049@eggly.anvils>

On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> @@ -2756,13 +2747,13 @@ out:
>   * @buffer:  to contain formatted mempolicy string
>   * @maxlen:  length of @buffer
>   * @pol:  pointer to mempolicy to be formatted
> - * @no_context:  "context free" mempolicy - use nodemask in w.user_nodemask
> + * @unused:  redundant argument, to be removed later.
>   *
>   * Convert a mempolicy into a string.
>   * Returns the number of characters in buffer (if positive)
>   * or an error (negative)
>   */
> -int mpol_to_str(char *buffer, int maxlen, struct mempolicy *pol, int no_context)
> +int mpol_to_str(char *buffer, int maxlen, struct mempolicy *pol, int unused)
>  {
>  	char *p = buffer;
>  	int l;
> @@ -2796,10 +2787,7 @@ int mpol_to_str(char *buffer, int maxlen
>  	case MPOL_BIND:
>  		/* Fall through */
>  	case MPOL_INTERLEAVE:
> -		if (no_context)
> -			nodes = pol->w.user_nodemask;
> -		else
> -			nodes = pol->v.nodes;
> +		nodes = pol->v.nodes;
>  		break;
>

no_context was always true. Why is the code from the false branch kept?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-02 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-02 10:01 Hugh Dickins
2013-01-02 10:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] mempolicy: remove arg from mpol_parse_str, mpol_to_str Hugh Dickins
2013-01-02 20:39   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-01-02 14:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] tmpfs mempolicy: fix /proc/mounts corrupting memory Christoph Lameter
2013-01-02 18:30   ` Hugh Dickins
2013-01-02 15:57 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2013-01-02 17:24   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-01-02 17:27     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-01-02 18:48     ` Hugh Dickins
2013-01-02 20:38 ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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