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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm,x86: fix span coverage in e820_all_mapped()
On 2013/12/11 9:06, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Ok, the issue I thought we were discussing was actually [A,B) [B,C) [C,D) ...
>

Hi Peter,

Yes, in this case the function will return 1.

Thanks,
Xishi Qiu

> Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:51 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>>> On 12/10/2013 01:52 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> What happens if it spans more than two regions?
>>>>
>>>> [A, B), [B+1, C), [C+1, D) ?
>>>> start in [A, B), and end in [C+1, D).
>>>>
>>>> old code:
>>>> first with [A, B), start set to B.
>>>> then with [B+1, C), start still keep as B.
>>>> then with [C+1, D), start still keep as B.
>>>> at last still return 0...aka not_all_mapped.
>>>>
>>>> old code is still right.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why not_all_mapped?
>>
>> [B, B+1), and [C, C+1) are not there.
>





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