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Re: [PATCH 1/4] Drivers: hv: cleanup vmbus_open() for wrap around mappings

From Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/4] Drivers: hv: cleanup vmbus_open() for wrap around mappings
Date 2016-08-31 12:50 +0200
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On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 05:25:02PM -0700, kys@exchange.microsoft.com wrote:
> From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
> 
> In preparation for doing wrap around mappings for ring buffers cleanup
> vmbus_open() function:
> - check that ring sizes are PAGE_SIZE aligned (they are for all in-kernel
>   drivers now);
> - kfree(open_info) on error only after we kzalloc() it (not an issue as it
>   is valid to call kfree(NULL);
> - rename poorly named labels;
> - use alloc_pages() instead of __get_free_pages() as we need struct page
>   pointer for future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> Tested-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
> ---
>  drivers/hv/channel.c |   43 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

This patch doesn't apply to the tree due to the other hv patches you
sent.  Can you respin this series and resend?

thanks,

greg k-h

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Re: [PATCH 1/4] Drivers: hv: cleanup vmbus_open() for wrap around  mappings Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-08-31 12:50 +0200
  RE: [PATCH 1/4] Drivers: hv: cleanup vmbus_open() for wrap around  mappings KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2016-08-31 20:20 +0200

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