linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 31/31] mm, vmstat: Remove zone and node double accounting by approximating retries

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Message-ID: <577D4A24.1090800@intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 6 Jul 2016 11:12:52 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Cc:	Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 31/31] mm, vmstat: Remove zone and node double accounting
 by approximating retries

On 07/01/2016 01:01 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
> +extern unsigned long highmem_file_pages;
> +
> +static inline void acct_highmem_file_pages(int zid, enum lru_list lru,
> +							int nr_pages)
> +{
> +	if (is_highmem_idx(zid) && is_file_lru(lru))
> +		highmem_file_pages += nr_pages;
> +}
> +#else

Shouldn't highmem_file_pages technically be an atomic_t (or atomic64_t)?
 We could have highmem on two nodes which take two different LRU locks.