linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] HWPOISON, hugetlbfs: fix RSS-counter warning

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Date:	Thu, 6 Dec 2012 14:40:08 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@...el.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] HWPOISON, hugetlbfs: fix RSS-counter warning

On Wed,  5 Dec 2012 17:14:33 -0500
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com> wrote:

> Hi Tony,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 10:04:50PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > 	if (PageHWPoison(page) && !(flags & TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON)) {
> > -		if (PageAnon(page))
> > +		if (PageHuge(page))
> > +			;
> > +		else if (PageAnon(page))
> >  			dec_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES);
> >  		else
> >  			dec_mm_counter(mm, MM_FILEPAGES);
> > 
> > This style minimizes the "diff" ... but wouldn't it be nicer to say:
> > 
> > 		if (!PageHuge(page)) {
> > 			old code in here
> > 		}
> > 
> 
> I think this need more lines in diff because old code should be
> indented without any logical change.

I do agree with Tony on this.  While it is nice to keep the diff
looking simple, it is more important that the resulting code be clean
and idiomatic.

--- a/mm/rmap.c~hwpoison-hugetlbfs-fix-rss-counter-warning-fix
+++ a/mm/rmap.c
@@ -1249,14 +1249,14 @@ int try_to_unmap_one(struct page *page, 
 	update_hiwater_rss(mm);
 
 	if (PageHWPoison(page) && !(flags & TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON)) {
-		if (PageHuge(page))
-			;
-		else if (PageAnon(page))
-			dec_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES);
-		else
-			dec_mm_counter(mm, MM_FILEPAGES);
-		set_pte_at(mm, address, pte,
-				swp_entry_to_pte(make_hwpoison_entry(page)));
+		if (!PageHuge(page)) {
+			if (PageAnon(page))
+				dec_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES);
+			else
+				dec_mm_counter(mm, MM_FILEPAGES);
+			set_pte_at(mm, address, pte,
+				   swp_entry_to_pte(make_hwpoison_entry(page)));
+		}
 	} else if (PageAnon(page)) {
 		swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(page) };
 
_

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