Re: [PATCH] mm: do not inc NR_PAGETABLE if ptlock_init failed

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Mon Oct 19 2015 - 08:21:35 EST


On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 03:14:41PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> If ALLOC_SPLIT_PTLOCKS is defined, ptlock_init may fail, in which case
> we shouldn't increment NR_PAGETABLE.
>
> Since small allocations, such as ptlock, normally do not fail (currently
> they can fail if kmemcg is used though), this patch does not really fix
> anything and should be considered as a code cleanup.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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