Re: [PATCHv4 2/5] lib/genalloc.c: Add genpool range check function

From: Olof Johansson
Date: Wed Jul 09 2014 - 18:33:34 EST


On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Laura Abbott <lauraa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> After allocating an address from a particular genpool,
> there is no good way to verify if that address actually
> belongs to a genpool. Introduce addr_in_gen_pool which
> will return if an address plus size falls completely
> within the genpool range.
>
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx>

What's the merge path for this code? Part of the arm64 code that needs
it, I presume?


-Olof
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