[PATCH v3 01/23] mm/memblock: debug: correct displaying of upper memory boundary

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Mon Dec 9 17:39:39 EST 2013


On Monday 09 December 2013 04:56 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 04:50:34PM -0500, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>> From: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko at ti.com>
>>
>> When debugging is enabled (cmdline has "memblock=debug") the memblock
>> will display upper memory boundary per each allocated/freed memory range
>> wrongly. For example:
>>  memblock_reserve: [0x0000009e7e8000-0x0000009e7ed000] _memblock_early_alloc_try_nid_nopanic+0xfc/0x12c
>>
>> The 0x0000009e7ed000 is displayed instead of 0x0000009e7ecfff
>>
>> Hence, correct this by changing formula used to calculate upper memory
>> boundary to (u64)base + size - 1 instead of  (u64)base + size everywhere
>> in the debug messages.
>>
>> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai at kernel.org>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
>> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
>> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko at ti.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>
> 
> Very minor patch but perhaps we should Cc: stable here ? not that it
> matters much...
> 
Yeah... No major fix as such from stable perspective.

regards,
Santosh



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