On 2/27/2015 1:24 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:39:45 -0800 Danesh Petigara <dpetig...@broadcom.com> > wrote: > >> The CMA aligned offset calculation is incorrect for >> non-zero order_per_bit values. >> >> For example, if cma->order_per_bit=1, cma->base_pfn= >> 0x2f800000 and align_order=12, the function returns >> a value of 0x17c00 instead of 0x400. >> >> This patch fixes the CMA aligned offset calculation. > > When fixing a bug please always describe the end-user visible effects > of that bug. > > Without that information others are unable to understand why you are > recommending a -stable backport. >
Thank you for the feedback. I had no crash logs to show, nevertheless, I agree that a sentence describing potential effects of the bug would've helped. I'll keep that in mind for future submissions. Best Regards, Danesh -- 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/
