Re: [PATCH 3/7] struct page: add field for vm_struct

From: Igor Stoppa
Date: Mon Feb 26 2018 - 11:38:12 EST




On 25/02/18 05:38, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 04:48:03PM +0200, Igor Stoppa wrote:
>> @@ -1769,6 +1771,9 @@ void *__vmalloc_node_range(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
>>
>> kmemleak_vmalloc(area, size, gfp_mask);
>>
>> + for (i = 0; i < area->nr_pages; i++)
>> + area->pages[i]->area = area;
>> +
>> return addr;
>>
>> fail:
>
> IMO, this is the wrong place to initialise the page->area. It should be
> done in __vmalloc_area_node() like so:
>
> area->nr_pages = i;
> goto fail;
> }
> + page->area = area;
> area->pages[i] = page;
> if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp_mask))
> cond_resched();
>


ok

--
igor