Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/malloc: handle correctly page allocation when align > size

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 07.03.14 at 07:46, Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When align is superior to size, we need to retrieve the order from
> align during multiple page allocation. I guess it was the goal of the commit
> fb034f42 "xmalloc: make close-to-PAGE_SIZE allocations more efficient".

Oh, yes, of course it was. Without that the call is pointless.

> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

Albeit in fact the better change might be to simply use
max(size, align) in the initializer of order - no idea why I didn't do
it that way.

Out of curiosity: I never expected this code path to be actually
taken - what is it that you need this to work correctly?

Jan

> --- a/xen/common/xmalloc_tlsf.c
> +++ b/xen/common/xmalloc_tlsf.c
> @@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ static void *xmalloc_whole_pages(unsigned long size, 
> unsigned long align)
>      void *res, *p;
>  
>      if ( align > size )
> -        get_order_from_bytes(align);
> +        order = get_order_from_bytes(align);
>  
>      res = alloc_xenheap_pages(order, 0);
>      if ( res == NULL )



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