linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] mm: Don't manually decrement num_poisoned

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Message-ID: <20190626062428.GH17798@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Wed, 26 Jun 2019 08:24:28 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Alastair D'Silva <alastair@....ibm.com>
Cc:     alastair@...ilva.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
        Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>,
        Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] mm: Don't manually decrement num_poisoned_pages

On Wed 26-06-19 16:11:23, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
> From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@...ilva.org>
> 
> Use the function written to do it instead.

I am not sure a single line helper is a great win but this makes the
code consistent at least.

> Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@...ilva.org>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

> ---
>  mm/sparse.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
> index 1ec32aef5590..d9b3625bfdf0 100644
> --- a/mm/sparse.c
> +++ b/mm/sparse.c
> @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
>  #include <linux/export.h>
>  #include <linux/spinlock.h>
>  #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> +#include <linux/swap.h>
> +#include <linux/swapops.h>
>  
>  #include "internal.h"
>  #include <asm/dma.h>
> @@ -772,7 +774,7 @@ static void clear_hwpoisoned_pages(struct page *memmap,
>  
>  	for (i = start; i < start + count; i++) {
>  		if (PageHWPoison(&memmap[i])) {
> -			atomic_long_sub(1, &num_poisoned_pages);
> +			num_poisoned_pages_dec();
>  			ClearPageHWPoison(&memmap[i]);
>  		}
>  	}
> -- 
> 2.21.0

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs