[PATCH 4/8] v3 Allow memory_block to span multiple memory sections

Dave Hansen dave at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Jul 21 05:21:20 EST 2010


On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 22:55 -0500, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> +static u32 get_memory_block_size(void)
> +{
> +       u32 block_sz;
> +
> +       block_sz = memory_block_size_bytes();
> +
> +       /* Validate blk_sz is a power of 2 and not less than section size */
> +       if ((block_sz & (block_sz - 1)) || (block_sz < MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE))
> +               block_sz = MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE;

Is this worth a WARN_ON()?  Seems pretty bogus if someone is returning
funky block sizes.  

-- Dave



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