mm/z3fold.c: limit first_num to the actual range of possible buddy indexes
authorzhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Wed, 22 Feb 2017 23:46:51 +0000 (15:46 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:41:31 +0000 (16:41 -0800)
At present, Tying the first_num size to NCHUNKS_ORDER is confusing.  the
number of chunks is completely unrelated to the number of buddies.

The patch limits the first_num to actual range of possible buddy indexes.
and that is more reasonable and obvious without functional change.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476776569-29504-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Acked-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Acked-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/z3fold.c

index 8f9e89ca1d312152711b23580cacf006407dff8b..207e5ddc87a2c4790c72d9133ad192c747e259f1 100644 (file)
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 #define ZHDR_SIZE_ALIGNED CHUNK_SIZE
 #define NCHUNKS                ((PAGE_SIZE - ZHDR_SIZE_ALIGNED) >> CHUNK_SHIFT)
 
-#define BUDDY_MASK     ((1 << NCHUNKS_ORDER) - 1)
+#define BUDDY_MASK     (0x3)
 
 struct z3fold_pool;
 struct z3fold_ops {
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ struct z3fold_header {
        unsigned short middle_chunks;
        unsigned short last_chunks;
        unsigned short start_middle;
-       unsigned short first_num:NCHUNKS_ORDER;
+       unsigned short first_num:2;
 };
 
 /*
@@ -179,7 +179,11 @@ static struct z3fold_header *handle_to_z3fold_header(unsigned long handle)
        return (struct z3fold_header *)(handle & PAGE_MASK);
 }
 
-/* Returns buddy number */
+/*
+ * (handle & BUDDY_MASK) < zhdr->first_num is possible in encode_handle
+ *  but that doesn't matter. because the masking will result in the
+ *  correct buddy number.
+ */
 static enum buddy handle_to_buddy(unsigned long handle)
 {
        struct z3fold_header *zhdr = handle_to_z3fold_header(handle);