Re: [PATCH] mm: convert totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and managed_pages to atomic.

[Arun KS]

On 2018-10-24 01:34, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 10:11 PM, Konstantin Khlebnikov
> <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 23.10.2018 7:15, Joe Perches wrote:> On Mon, 2018-10-22 at 22:53 
> > +0530,
> > Arun KS wrote:
> > > > Remove managed_page_count_lock spinlock and instead use atomic
> > > > variables.
> > >
> > > Perhaps better to define and use macros for the accesses
> > > instead of specific uses of atomic_long_<inc/dec/read>
> > >
> > > Something like:
> > >
> > > #define totalram_pages()      (unsigned
> > > long)atomic_long_read(&_totalram_pages)
> >
> > or proper static inline
> > this code isn't so low level for breaking include dependencies with 
> > macro
>
> BTW, I noticed a few places in the patch that did multiple evaluations
> of totalram_pages. It might be worth fixing those prior to doing the
> conversion, too. e.g.:
>
> if (totalram_pages > something)
>    foobar(totalram_pages); <- value may have changed here
>
> should, instead, be:
>
> var = totalram_pages; <- get stable view of the value
> if (var > something)
>     foobar(var);

Thanks for reviewing. Point taken.
> -Kees
>
> > [dropped bloated cc - my server rejects this mess]
>
> Thank you -- I was struggling to figure out the best way to reply to 
> this. :)
I'm sorry for the trouble caused. Sent the email using,
git send-email  --to-cmd="scripts/get_maintainer.pl -i" 
0001-convert-totalram_pages-totalhigh_pages-and-managed_p.patch

Is this not a recommended approach?

Regards,
Arun

> -Kees