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authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>2023-03-15 14:31:33 +0300
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-04-05 19:42:46 -0700
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mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely
MAX_ORDER currently defined as number of orders page allocator supports: user can ask buddy allocator for page order between 0 and MAX_ORDER-1. This definition is counter-intuitive and lead to number of bugs all over the kernel. Change the definition of MAX_ORDER to be inclusive: the range of orders user can ask from buddy allocator is 0..MAX_ORDER now. [kirill@shutemov.name: fix min() warning] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315153800.32wib3n5rickolvh@box [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix another min_t warning] [kirill@shutemov.name: fixups per Zi Yan] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230316232144.b7ic4cif4kjiabws@box.shutemov.name [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix underlining in docs] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202303191025.VRCTk6mP-lkp@intel.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315113133.11326-11-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> [powerpc] Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst6
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst
index 86fd88492870..c18d94fa6470 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ variables.
Offset of the free_list's member. This value is used to compute the number
of free pages.
-Each zone has a free_area structure array called free_area[MAX_ORDER].
+Each zone has a free_area structure array called free_area[MAX_ORDER + 1].
The free_list represents a linked list of free page blocks.
(list_head, next|prev)
@@ -189,8 +189,8 @@ Offsets of the vmap_area's members. They carry vmalloc-specific
information. Makedumpfile gets the start address of the vmalloc region
from this.
-(zone.free_area, MAX_ORDER)
----------------------------
+(zone.free_area, MAX_ORDER + 1)
+-------------------------------
Free areas descriptor. User-space tools use this value to iterate the
free_area ranges. MAX_ORDER is used by the zone buddy allocator.