Re: [PATCH v13 2/6] mm/vmstat: Use vmstat_dirty to track CPU-specific vmstat discrepancies

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2023, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/vmstat.c
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/vmstat.c
> @@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ void __mod_zone_page_state(struct zone *
>  		x = 0;
>  	}
>  	__this_cpu_write(*p, x);
> +	vmstat_mark_dirty();

__vmstat_mark_dirty()? See earlier patch

>
>  	preempt_enable_nested();
>  }
> @@ -417,6 +418,7 @@ void __mod_node_page_state(struct pglist
>  		x = 0;
>  	}
>  	__this_cpu_write(*p, x);
> +	vmstat_mark_dirty();

Ditto.

>
>  	preempt_enable_nested();
>  }
> @@ -577,6 +579,9 @@ static inline void mod_zone_state(struct
>  	s8 __percpu *p = pcp->vm_stat_diff + item;
>  	long o, n, t, z;
>
> +	/* cmpxchg and vmstat_mark_dirty should happen on the same CPU */
> +	preempt_disable();

If you are disabling preemption then why do we still need cmpxchg?
Same again below.