Re: [PATCH 05/12] mm: alloc_contig_range() added

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Thu Mar 31 2011 - 12:03:01 EST


On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 15:16 +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> + ret = 0;
> + while (!PageBuddy(pfn_to_page(start & (~0UL << ret))))
> + if (WARN_ON(++ret >= MAX_ORDER))
> + return -EINVAL;

Holy cow, that's dense. Is there really no more straightforward way to
do that?

In any case, please pull the ++ret bit out of the WARN_ON(). Some
people like to do:

#define WARN_ON(...) do{}while(0)

to save space on some systems.

-- Dave

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