Re: [PATCH mmotm] mm: use unsigned int for page order fix 2

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Oct 16 2015 - 19:00:55 EST


On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:51:34 -0700 (PDT) Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Some configs now end up with MAX_ORDER and pageblock_order having
> different types: silence compiler warning in __free_one_page().
>
> ...
>
> @@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struc
> * pageblock. Without this, pageblock isolation
> * could cause incorrect freepage accounting.
> */
> - max_order = min(MAX_ORDER, pageblock_order + 1);
> + max_order = min_t(unsigned int, MAX_ORDER, pageblock_order + 1);
> } else {
> __mod_zone_freepage_state(zone, 1 << order, migratetype);
> }

Well. If we're ordaining that "page order has type uint" then can we
do that more consistently? Something like

--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h~a
+++ a/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@

/* Free memory management - zoned buddy allocator. */
#ifndef CONFIG_FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER
-#define MAX_ORDER 11
+#define MAX_ORDER 11U
#else
-#define MAX_ORDER CONFIG_FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER
+#define MAX_ORDER ((unsigned int)CONFIG_FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER)
#endif
#define MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES (1 << (MAX_ORDER - 1))

diff -puN include/linux/pageblock-flags.h~a include/linux/pageblock-flags.h
--- a/include/linux/pageblock-flags.h~a
+++ a/include/linux/pageblock-flags.h
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ extern unsigned int pageblock_order;
#else /* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE */

/* Huge pages are a constant size */
-#define pageblock_order HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER
+#define pageblock_order ((unsigned int)HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER)

#endif /* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE */

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