linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] BC: beancounters core (API)

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Date:	Fri, 25 Aug 2006 01:33:45 +0400
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Andrey Savochkin <saw@...ru>, devel@...nvz.org,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>,
	Rohit Seth <rohitseth@...gle.com>,
	Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] BC: beancounters core (API)

On 08/23, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
>
> +struct beancounter *beancounter_findcreate(uid_t uid, int mask)
> +{
> +	struct beancounter *new_bc, *bc;
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +	struct hlist_head *slot;
> +	struct hlist_node *pos;
> +
> +	slot = &bc_hash[bc_hash_fun(uid)];
> +	new_bc = NULL;
> +
> +retry:
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&bc_hash_lock, flags);
> +	hlist_for_each_entry (bc, pos, slot, hash)
> +		if (bc->bc_id == uid)
> +			break;
> +
> +	if (pos != NULL) {
> +		get_beancounter(bc);
> +		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bc_hash_lock, flags);
> +
> +		if (new_bc != NULL)
> +			kmem_cache_free(bc_cachep, new_bc);
> +		return bc;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (!(mask & BC_ALLOC))
> +		goto out_unlock;

Very minor nit: it is not clear why we are doing this check under
bc_hash_lock. I'd suggest to do

	if (!(mask & BC_ALLOC))
		goto out;

after unlock(bc_hash_lock) and kill out_unlock label.

> +	if (new_bc != NULL)
> +		goto out_install;
> +
> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bc_hash_lock, flags);
> +
> +	new_bc = kmem_cache_alloc(bc_cachep,
> +			mask & BC_ALLOC_ATOMIC ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (new_bc == NULL)
> +		goto out;
> +
> +	memcpy(new_bc, &default_beancounter, sizeof(*new_bc));

May be it is just me, but I need a couple of seconds to parse this 'memcpy'.
How about

	*new_bc = default_beancounter;

?

Oleg.

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