Re: [PATCH 04/13] mm: Track NR_KERNEL_STACK in pages instead of number of stacks

From: Vladimir Davydov
Date: Thu Jun 16 2016 - 07:27:28 EST


On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 05:28:26PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
...
> @@ -225,7 +225,8 @@ static void account_kernel_stack(struct thread_info *ti, int account)
> {
> struct zone *zone = page_zone(virt_to_page(ti));
>
> - mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_KERNEL_STACK, account);
> + mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_KERNEL_STACK,
> + THREAD_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE * account);

It won't work if THREAD_SIZE < PAGE_SIZE. Is there an arch with such a
thread size, anyway? If no, we should probably drop thread_info_cache.