Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: rename global_page_state to global_zone_page_state

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue,  1 Aug 2017 09:42:56 -0400 Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> global_page_state is error prone as a recent bug report pointed out [1].
> It only returns proper values for zone based counters as the enum it
> gets suggests. We already have global_node_page_state so let's rename
> global_page_state to global_zone_page_state to be more explicit here.
> All existing users seems to be correct
> $ git grep "global_page_state(NR_" | sed 's@.*(\(NR_[A-Z_]*\)).*@\1@' | sort | uniq -c
>       2 NR_BOUNCE
>       2 NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES
>      11 NR_FREE_PAGES
>       1 NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB
>       1 NR_MLOCK
>       2 NR_PAGETABLE
> 
> This patch shouldn't introduce any functional change.

Checkpatch gets a bit whiny.


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#127: FILE: mm/mmap.c:3517:
+	free_kbytes = global_zone_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) << (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);

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#136: FILE: mm/mmap.c:3538:
+	free_kbytes = global_zone_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) << (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);

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#145: FILE: mm/mmap.c:3582:
+		free_kbytes = global_zone_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) << (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);

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#157: FILE: mm/nommu.c:1965:
+	free_kbytes = global_zone_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) << (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);

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#166: FILE: mm/nommu.c:1986:
+	free_kbytes = global_zone_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) << (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);

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#187: FILE: mm/page-writeback.c:1408:
+ * global_zone_page_state() too often. So scale it near-sqrt to the safety margin


Liveable with, but the code would be quite a bit neater if we had a
helper function for this.  We get things like:

--- a/mm/mmap.c~mm-rename-global_page_state-to-global_zone_page_state-fix
+++ a/mm/mmap.c
@@ -3512,11 +3512,7 @@ void __init mmap_init(void)
  */
 static int init_user_reserve(void)
 {
-	unsigned long free_kbytes;
-
-	free_kbytes = global_zone_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) << (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
-
-	sysctl_user_reserve_kbytes = min(free_kbytes / 32, 1UL << 17);
+	sysctl_user_reserve_kbytes = min(global_free_kbytes() / 32, 1UL << 17);
 	return 0;
 }
 subsys_initcall(init_user_reserve);