Suspicious compilation warning

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue May 4 13:45:07 EDT 2010


On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 02:35:50PM -0300, Marcelo Jimenez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 20:07, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Well, it'll be about this number on everything using sparsemem extreme:
> >
> > #define SECTIONS_PER_ROOT       (PAGE_SIZE / sizeof (struct mem_section))
> >
> > and with only 32 sections, this is going to give a NR_SECTION_ROOTS value
> > of zero.  I think the calculation of NR_SECTIONS_ROOTS is wrong.
> >
> > #define NR_SECTION_ROOTS        (NR_MEM_SECTIONS / SECTIONS_PER_ROOT)
> >
> > Clearly if we have 1 mem section, we want to have one section root, so
> > I think this division should round up any fractional part, thusly:
> >
> > #define NR_SECTION_ROOTS        ((NR_MEM_SECTIONS + SECTIONS_PER_ROOT - 1) / SECTIONS_PER_ROOT)
> 
> Seems correct to me, Is there any idea when this gets committed?

What should be asked is whether it has been tested - if not, can we find
someone who can test and validate the change?



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