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memblock: add assertion for zero allocation alignment
authorVineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:54:46 +0000 (21:54 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:56:30 +0000 (14:56 +1100)
commit479a91e1e683e55953429d361082c93f37052c2f
tree81bf82ac42ddc8af38ac5c0d6c58df28234cb05f
parent8f365a2cb4ff2c9c1b2f1f5e4523f426fb82c8fd
memblock: add assertion for zero allocation alignment

This came to light when calling memblock allocator from arc port (for
copying flattended DT).  If a "0" alignment is passed, the allocator
round_up() call incorrectly rounds up the size to 0.

round_up(num, alignto) => ((num - 1) | (alignto -1)) + 1

While the obvious allocation failure causes kernel to panic, it is better
to warn the caller to fix the code.

Tejun suggested that instead of BUG_ON(!align) - which might be
ineffective due to pending console init and such, it is better to WARN_ON,
and continue the boot with a reasonable default align.

Caller passing @size need not be handled similarly as the subsequent
panic will indicate that anyhow.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memblock.c