Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/cell/oprofile: vma_map: fix test on overlay_tbl_offset

From: Robert Richter <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:21:39 +0200

On 07.10.08 10:38:33, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Roel Kluin <[email-masked]>
> 
> Offset is unsigned and when an address isn't found in the vma map
> vma_map_lookup() returns the vma physical address + 0x10000000.
> 
> vma_map_lookup used to return 0xffffffff on a failed lookup, but
> a change was made to return the vma physical address + 0x10000000
> There are two callers of vam_map_lookup: one of them correctly 
> deals with this new return value, but the other (below) did not.  
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <[email-masked]>
> Acked-by: Maynard Johnson <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Cc: Carl Love <[email-masked]>

The patch has been applied to the powerpc-for-paul branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile.git

Thanks Roel and Arnd,

-Robert

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