[PATCH] adjust size calculation for get_vm_area() in ioremap()context

[Jan Beulich]

Short of getting a reply on the query why the argument of fls() here is
missing the decrement, here's a patch to add it (reducing the resulting
size when the incoming size is an exact power of two).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 mm/vmalloc.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.25/mm/vmalloc.c	2008-04-17 04:49:44.000000000 +0200
+++ 2.6.25-vm-ioremap-size/mm/vmalloc.c	2008-04-15 10:49:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static struct vm_struct *__get_vm_area_n
 
 	BUG_ON(in_interrupt());
 	if (flags & VM_IOREMAP) {
-		int bit = fls(size);
+		int bit = fls(size - 1);
 
 		if (bit > IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER)
 			bit = IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER;



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