On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 11:00:50 -0300 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> wrote:
> I keep thinking that this change is making things unclear. > > I.e. the _start_ of a map (map->start) is _in_ the map, and the _end_ > of a map (map->end) is _in_ the map as well. > > if (addr > m->end) > > is shorter than: > > if (addr >= m->end) > > "start" and "end" should have the same rule applied, i.e. if one is in, > the other is in as well. > > Etc. > But the convention used in the memory management code is that "end" is the next byte after the memory region. This gives you: size = end - start end = start + size Using a different convention here will just confuse people used to the way it's done everywhere else. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
