Re: + mm-sparse-introduce-alloc_usemap_and_memmap-fix-2.patch addedto -mm tree

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Thu Aug 29 2013 - 16:44:23 EST


On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:29 PM, <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Subject: + mm-sparse-introduce-alloc_usemap_and_memmap-fix-2.patch added to -mm tree
> To: liwanp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx
> From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:29:06 -0700
>
>
> The patch titled
> Subject: mm/sparse: introduce alloc_usemap_and_memmap fix-2
> has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
> mm-sparse-introduce-alloc_usemap_and_memmap-fix-2.patch
>
> This patch should soon appear at
> http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-sparse-introduce-alloc_usemap_and_memmap-fix-2.patch
> and later at
> http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-sparse-introduce-alloc_usemap_and_memmap-fix-2.patch
>
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> ------------------------------------------------------
> From: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: mm/sparse: introduce alloc_usemap_and_memmap fix-2
>
> Pass function pointer to alloc_usemap_and_memmap() instead of true/false.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> mm/sparse.c | 41 +++++++++++++++--------------------------
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>
> diff -puN mm/sparse.c~mm-sparse-introduce-alloc_usemap_and_memmap-fix-2 mm/sparse.c
> --- a/mm/sparse.c~mm-sparse-introduce-alloc_usemap_and_memmap-fix-2
> +++ a/mm/sparse.c
> @@ -339,13 +339,14 @@ static void __init check_usemap_section_
> }
> #endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE */
>
> -static void __init sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node(unsigned long**usemap_map,
> +static void __init sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node(void **data,
> unsigned long pnum_begin,
> unsigned long pnum_end,
> unsigned long usemap_count, int nodeid)
> {
> void *usemap;
> unsigned long pnum;
> + unsigned long **usemap_map = (unsigned long **)data;

Can you check if (void *data) will work?

void ** looks strange.

Yinghai
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