Re: + memblock-add-assertion-for-zero-allocation-alignment.patchadded to -mm tree
From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Mar 06 2013 - 19:16:25 EST
On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 16:07:20 -0800 Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > --- a/mm/memblock.c~memblock-add-assertion-for-zero-allocation-alignment
> > +++ a/mm/memblock.c
> > @@ -771,6 +771,9 @@ static phys_addr_t __init memblock_alloc
> > {
> > phys_addr_t found;
> >
> > + if (WARN_ON(!align))
> > + align = __alignof__(long long);
> > +
> > /* align @size to avoid excessive fragmentation on reserved array */
> > size = round_up(size, align);
>
> Hi, Peter,
>
> Do you agree that we should check align in round_up()?
As you don't describe your reasoning it is hard to say.
But no, I don't think so. Checking for zero would add a pile of
basically useless code to the 100+ round_up() callsites, and
round_up(x, 0) is kinda meaningful, in a strange way.
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