Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] mm: use vm_unmapped_area() on powerpc architecture

From: Rik van Riel <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:41:23 -0500

On 01/09/2013 06:23 AM, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 02:32:56PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> Ok. I think at least you can move that construct:
>>
>> +               if (addr < SLICE_LOW_TOP) {
>> +                       slice = GET_LOW_SLICE_INDEX(addr);
>> +                       addr = (slice + 1) << SLICE_LOW_SHIFT;
>> +                       if (!(available.low_slices & (1u << slice)))
>> +                               continue;
>> +               } else {
>> +                       slice = GET_HIGH_SLICE_INDEX(addr);
>> +                       addr = (slice + 1) << SLICE_HIGH_SHIFT;
>> +                       if (!(available.high_slices & (1u << slice)))
>> +                               continue;
>> +               }
>>
>> Into some kind of helper. It will probably compile to the same thing but
>> at least it's more readable and it will avoid a fuckup in the future if
>> somebody changes the algorithm and forgets to update one of the
>> copies :-)
>
> All right, does the following look more palatable then ?
> (didn't re-test it, though)

Looks equivalent. I have also not tested :)

> Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <[email-masked]>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email-masked]>