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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2015-02-11 15:26:03 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-11 17:06:02 -0800
commit650c5e565492f9092552bfe4d65935196c7d9567 (patch)
tree5fce0f701502f4b75339d4c53b37301d3db65fdb /mm/page_counter.c
parentmm: use correct format specifiers when printing address ranges (diff)
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mm: page_counter: pull "-1" handling out of page_counter_memparse()
The unified hierarchy interface for memory cgroups will no longer use "-1" to mean maximum possible resource value. In preparation for this, make the string an argument and let the caller supply it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_counter.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_counter.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_counter.c b/mm/page_counter.c
index a009574fbba9..11b4beda14ba 100644
--- a/mm/page_counter.c
+++ b/mm/page_counter.c
@@ -166,18 +166,19 @@ int page_counter_limit(struct page_counter *counter, unsigned long limit)
/**
* page_counter_memparse - memparse() for page counter limits
* @buf: string to parse
+ * @max: string meaning maximum possible value
* @nr_pages: returns the result in number of pages
*
* Returns -EINVAL, or 0 and @nr_pages on success. @nr_pages will be
* limited to %PAGE_COUNTER_MAX.
*/
-int page_counter_memparse(const char *buf, unsigned long *nr_pages)
+int page_counter_memparse(const char *buf, const char *max,
+ unsigned long *nr_pages)
{
- char unlimited[] = "-1";
char *end;
u64 bytes;
- if (!strncmp(buf, unlimited, sizeof(unlimited))) {
+ if (!strcmp(buf, max)) {
*nr_pages = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX;
return 0;
}