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Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm/vmalloc.c: correct a few logic error for __insert_vmap_area()

From zijun_hu <zijun_hu@zoho.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm/vmalloc.c: correct a few logic error for __insert_vmap_area()
Date 2016-09-22 00:40 +0200
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On 2016/9/22 5:10, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2016, zijun_hu wrote:
> 
>> From: zijun_hu <zijun_hu@htc.com>
>>
>> correct a few logic error for __insert_vmap_area() since the else
>> if condition is always true and meaningless
>>
>> in order to fix this issue, if vmap_area inserted is lower than one
>> on rbtree then walk around left branch; if higher then right branch
>> otherwise intersects with the other then BUG_ON() is triggered
>>
> 
> Under normal operation, you're right that the "else if" conditional should 
> always succeed: we don't want to BUG() unless there's a bug.  The original 
> code can catch instances when va->va_start == tmp_va->va_end where we 
> should BUG().  Your code silently ignores it.
> 
Hmm, the BUG_ON() appears in the original code, i don't introduce it.
it maybe be better to consider va->va_start == tmp_va->va_end as normal case
and should not BUG_ON() it since the available range of vmap_erea include
the start boundary but the end, BTW, represented as [start, end)

this patch correct the logic to that mentioned in the comments, it maybe be
more logical and more understandable

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[PATCH 1/5] mm/vmalloc.c: correct a few logic error for  __insert_vmap_area() zijun_hu <zijun_hu@zoho.com> - 2016-09-21 06:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm/vmalloc.c: correct a few logic error for  __insert_vmap_area() David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> - 2016-09-21 23:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm/vmalloc.c: correct a few logic error for  __insert_vmap_area() zijun_hu <zijun_hu@zoho.com> - 2016-09-22 00:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm/vmalloc.c: correct a few logic error for  __insert_vmap_area() David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> - 2016-09-22 00:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm/vmalloc.c: correct a few logic error for  __insert_vmap_area() David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> - 2016-09-22 01:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm/vmalloc.c: correct a few logic error for  __insert_vmap_area() zijun_hu <zijun_hu@zoho.com> - 2016-09-22 02:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm/vmalloc.c: correct a few logic error for  __insert_vmap_area() zijun_hu <zijun_hu@zoho.com> - 2016-09-22 01:20 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] mm/vmalloc.c: correct a few logic error for  __insert_vmap_area() zijun_hu <zijun_hu@zoho.com> - 2016-09-22 03:40 +0200

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