Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86: simplify cpa_process_alias()

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Thu May 14 2009 - 10:16:34 EST


>>> Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> 14.05.09 14:49 >>>
>The two existing alias conditions in cpa_process_alias() are mutually
>exclusive and future ones are likely to be exclusive too. Simplify
>control flow to ease adding other alias cases.
>
>The within(vaddr, (unsigned long)_text, _brk_end) test is removed as
>it's guaranteed to be false if vaddr is in the page mapped area.

I don't think that's correct - just consider the case where the originally passed
in virtual address is from the vmalloc area: In that case, both the 1:1 mapping
*and* the kernel mapping need to be checked.

Jan

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