Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932439Ab2BNVEt (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:04:49 -0500 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:41214 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932388Ab2BNVEs (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:04:48 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:04:45 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com To: Dan Smith cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ensure that walk_page_range()'s start and end are page-aligned In-Reply-To: <87pqdh1mvs.fsf@caffeine.danplanet.com> Message-ID: References: <1328902796-30389-1-git-send-email-danms@us.ibm.com> <87zkcm23az.fsf@caffeine.danplanet.com> <87pqdh1mvs.fsf@caffeine.danplanet.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 540 Lines: 14 On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Dan Smith wrote: > I'd rather just make it always do the check in walk_page_range(). Does > that sound reasonable? > And do what if they're not? What behavior are you trying to fix from the pagewalk code with respect to page-aligned addresses? Any specific examples? -- 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/