Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932406AbbB0XxH (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:53:07 -0500 Received: from mail-gw2-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.63]:17103 "EHLO mail-gw2-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932083AbbB0XxF (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:53:05 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.09,663,1418112000"; d="scan'208";a="58226228" Message-ID: <54F10358.1050102@broadcom.com> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:52:56 -0800 From: Danesh Petigara User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: , , , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: cma: fix CMA aligned offset calculation References: <1424821185-16956-1-git-send-email-dpetigara@broadcom.com> <20150227132443.e17d574d45451f10f413f065@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20150227132443.e17d574d45451f10f413f065@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1103 Lines: 32 On 2/27/2015 1:24 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:39:45 -0800 Danesh Petigara wrote: > >> The CMA aligned offset calculation is incorrect for >> non-zero order_per_bit values. >> >> For example, if cma->order_per_bit=1, cma->base_pfn= >> 0x2f800000 and align_order=12, the function returns >> a value of 0x17c00 instead of 0x400. >> >> This patch fixes the CMA aligned offset calculation. > > When fixing a bug please always describe the end-user visible effects > of that bug. > > Without that information others are unable to understand why you are > recommending a -stable backport. > Thank you for the feedback. I had no crash logs to show, nevertheless, I agree that a sentence describing potential effects of the bug would've helped. I'll keep that in mind for future submissions. Best Regards, Danesh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/