linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] memcg: Add memory.pressure

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 13 Feb 2013 07:41:04 -0800
From:	Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>
To:	Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>
Cc:	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Leonid Moiseichuk <leonid.moiseichuk@...ia.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org,
	patches@...aro.org, kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg: Add memory.pressure_level events

On Tue, Feb 12 2013, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

> Hi Greg,
>
> Thanks for taking a look!
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:42:51PM -0800, Greg Thelen wrote:
> [...]
>> > +static bool vmpressure_event(struct vmpressure *vmpr,
>> > +			     unsigned long s, unsigned long r)
>> > +{
>> > +	struct vmpressure_event *ev;
>> > +	int level = vmpressure_calc_level(vmpressure_win, s, r);
>> > +	bool signalled = 0;
>> s/bool/int/
>
> Um... I surely can do this, but why do you think it is a good idea?

Because you incremented signalled below.  Incrementing a bool seems
strange.  A better fix would be to leave this a bool and
s/signaled++/signaled = true/ below.

>> > +
>> > +	mutex_lock(&vmpr->events_lock);
>> > +
>> > +	list_for_each_entry(ev, &vmpr->events, node) {
>> > +		if (level >= ev->level) {
>> > +			eventfd_signal(ev->efd, 1);
>> > +			signalled++;
>> > +		}
>> > +	}
>> > +
>> > +	mutex_unlock(&vmpr->events_lock);
>> > +
>> > +	return signalled;
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/