From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Tejun Heo <teheo@novell.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] m68k: don't alias VMALLOC_END to vmalloc_end
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:08:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10f740e80912080108s5e145ee8t74a27e44d31966ed@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B1DF8D4.2010202@novell.com>
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 07:57, Tejun Heo <teheo@novell.com> wrote:
> On SUN3, m68k defines macro VMALLOC_END as unsigned long variable
> vmalloc_end which is adjusted from mmu_emu_init(). This becomes
> problematic if a local variables vmalloc_end is defined in some
> function (not very unlikely) and VMALLOC_END is used in the function -
> the function thinks its referencing the global VMALLOC_END value but
> would be referencing its own local vmalloc_end variable.
>
> There's no reason VMALLOC_END should be a macro. Just define it as an
> unsigned long variable to avoid nasty surprises.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
> ---
> Okay, here it is. Compile tested. Geert, Roman, if you guys don't
> object, I'd like to push it with the rest of percpu changes to Linus.
> What do you think?
Fine for me, except that by convention allcaps is reserved for macros?
>
> Thanks.
>
> arch/m68k/include/asm/pgtable_mm.h | 3 +--
> arch/m68k/sun3/mmu_emu.c | 8 ++++----
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/m68k/include/asm/pgtable_mm.h b/arch/m68k/include/asm/pgtable_mm.h
> index fe60e1a..0ea9f09 100644
> --- a/arch/m68k/include/asm/pgtable_mm.h
> +++ b/arch/m68k/include/asm/pgtable_mm.h
> @@ -83,9 +83,8 @@
> #define VMALLOC_START (((unsigned long) high_memory + VMALLOC_OFFSET) & ~(VMALLOC_OFFSET-1))
> #define VMALLOC_END KMAP_START
> #else
> -extern unsigned long vmalloc_end;
> #define VMALLOC_START 0x0f800000
> -#define VMALLOC_END vmalloc_end
> +extern unsigned long VMALLOC_END;
> #endif /* CONFIG_SUN3 */
>
> /* zero page used for uninitialized stuff */
> diff --git a/arch/m68k/sun3/mmu_emu.c b/arch/m68k/sun3/mmu_emu.c
> index 3cd1939..25e2b14 100644
> --- a/arch/m68k/sun3/mmu_emu.c
> +++ b/arch/m68k/sun3/mmu_emu.c
> @@ -45,8 +45,8 @@
> ** Globals
> */
>
> -unsigned long vmalloc_end;
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_end);
> +unsigned long VMALLOC_END;
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(VMALLOC_END);
>
> unsigned long pmeg_vaddr[PMEGS_NUM];
> unsigned char pmeg_alloc[PMEGS_NUM];
> @@ -172,8 +172,8 @@ void mmu_emu_init(unsigned long bootmem_end)
> #endif
> // the lowest mapping here is the end of our
> // vmalloc region
> - if(!vmalloc_end)
> - vmalloc_end = seg;
> + if (!VMALLOC_END)
> + VMALLOC_END = seg;
>
> // mark the segmap alloc'd, and reserve any
> // of the first 0xbff pages the hardware is
>
--
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-08 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-07 16:24 [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: don't use vmalloc_end Jan Beulich
2009-12-07 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
2009-12-08 0:33 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-08 0:40 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-08 6:57 ` [PATCH] m68k: don't alias VMALLOC_END to vmalloc_end Tejun Heo
2009-12-08 9:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2009-12-08 0:50 ` [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: don't use vmalloc_end Matthew Wilcox
2009-12-08 1:03 ` Andrew Morton
2009-12-08 8:23 ` Jan Beulich
2009-12-08 8:29 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-08 8:39 ` Jan Beulich
2009-12-08 8:57 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-09 23:43 ` [PATCH -stable] vmalloc: conditionalize build of pcpu_get_vm_areas() Tejun Heo
2009-12-16 23:12 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2009-12-17 0:01 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-17 0:02 ` Greg KH
2009-12-09 17:31 ` [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: don't use vmalloc_end Christoph Lameter
2009-12-09 17:48 ` Luck, Tony
2009-12-09 18:10 ` Mike Travis
2009-12-09 18:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-12-09 18:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-12-09 18:37 ` Mike Travis
2009-12-09 18:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-12-08 9:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-12-08 9:24 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-09 8:47 ` [PATCH] m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end Tejun Heo
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