linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/9] v3 Add section count to memory

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Date:	Tue, 5 Oct 2010 14:08:35 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Nathan Fontenot <nfont@...tin.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Robin Holt <holt@....com>, steiner@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] v3 Add section count to memory_block struct

On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:30:40 -0500
Nathan Fontenot <nfont@...tin.ibm.com> wrote:

> Add a section count property to the memory_block struct to track the number
> of memory sections that have been added/removed from a memory block. This
> allows us to know when the last memory section of a memory block has been
> removed so we can remove the memory block.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@...tin.ibm.com>
> 

Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>

a nitpick,


> Index: linux-next/include/linux/memory.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-next.orig/include/linux/memory.h	2010-09-29 14:56:29.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-next/include/linux/memory.h	2010-09-30 14:13:50.000000000 -0500
> @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
>  struct memory_block {
>  	unsigned long phys_index;
>  	unsigned long state;
> +	int section_count;

I prefer
	int section_count; /* updated under mutex */

or some for this kind of non-atomic counters. but nitpick.

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