Re: [PATCHv2] perf: Fix vmalloc ring buffer free function

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Mar 11 2013 - 12:26:51 EST


On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 12:21 +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > pg_nr = offset >> page_shift;
> > pg_offset = offset & (1 << page_shift) - 1;
> >
> > You just wrecked that.
> >
> > > handle->page &= rb->nr_pages - 1;
>
> here's ^^^ where the handle->page becomes 0 due to (rb->nr_pages == 0)

then that'll be &= -1, which is a nop, no?

Also, you wrecked it for anything that uses some intermediate page
order (we currently don't).

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