Re: [PATCH] Add nid sanity on alloc_pages_node

From: Paul Jackson
Date: Fri Jul 13 2007 - 04:55:16 EST


> Something for the young ...

... ancient self smiles with relief, glad that Andrew is not looking
this way ;).

> We could do this: add a little bitops torture-test and run that
> unconditionally, nice and early.

Good idea. That would allow for wide spread coverage across all arch's
that they obeyed the rules for the tighter API - find_first_bit returning
exactly N on finding no bits set, before we took the risk of actually
relying on the changed API, by removing those min_t() guards.

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I won't rest till it's the best ...
Programmer, Linux Scalability
Paul Jackson <pj@xxxxxxx> 1.925.600.0401
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