Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm: add new mmgrab() helper

From: David Rientjes
Date: Thu Dec 22 2016 - 17:03:59 EST


On Sun, 18 Dec 2016, Vegard Nossum wrote:

> Apart from adding the helper function itself, the rest of the kernel is
> converted mechanically using:
>
> git grep -l 'atomic_inc.*mm_count' | xargs sed -i 's/atomic_inc(&\(.*\)->mm_count);/mmgrab\(\1\);/'
> git grep -l 'atomic_inc.*mm_count' | xargs sed -i 's/atomic_inc(&\(.*\)\.mm_count);/mmgrab\(\&\1\);/'
>
> This is needed for a later patch that hooks into the helper, but might be
> a worthwhile cleanup on its own.
>
> (Michal Hocko provided most of the kerneldoc comment.)
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

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