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

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Tue Jul 22 2014 - 11:50:45 EST


On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 08:51:04PM +0100, Laura Abbott wrote:
> On 7/9/2014 3:33 PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > 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?
>
> My plan was to have the entire series go through the arm64 tree unless
> someone has a better idea.

It's fine by me. But since it touches core arch/arm code, I would like
to see an Ack from Russell.

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Catalin
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