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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm,ksm: use new hashtable implementation
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:36:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121221133610.bb516813.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1356112012-24584-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com>

On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:46:50 -0500
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> wrote:

> Switch ksm to use the new hashtable implementation. This reduces the amount of
> generic unrelated code in the ksm module.

hm, include/linux/hashtable.h:hash_min() is rather dangerous - it
returns different values depending on the size of the first argument. 
So if the calling code mixes up its ints and longs (and boy we do that
a lot), the result will work on 32-bit and fail on 64-bit.

Also, is there ever likely to be a situation where the first arg to
hash_min() is *not* a pointer?  Perhaps it would be better to concede
to reality: rename `key' to `ptr' and remove all those typcasts you
just added.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-21 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-21 17:46 Sasha Levin
2012-12-21 21:36 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-12-21 21:59   ` Sasha Levin

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