linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/15] sched: make nr_running() return "unsigned int"

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Date:   Tue, 21 Apr 2020 20:06:34 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, pmladek@...e.com,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com,
        andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com, linux@...musvillemoes.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] sched: make nr_running() return "unsigned int"

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 02:05:57PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:57:29PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > I don't anyone have been crazy enough to spawn 2^32 threads.
> > It'd require absurd amounts of physical memory,  and bump into futex pid
> > limit anyway.
> > 
> > Meanwhile save few bits on REX prefixes and some stack space for upcoming
> > print_integer() stuff.
> > 
> > And remove "extern" from prototypes while I'm at it.
> 
> It seems like there's a few more places to fix in this regard?
> 
> kernel/sched/fair.c:static u64 __sched_period(unsigned long nr_running)
> kernel/sched/sched.h:   unsigned long           dl_nr_running;
> kernel/sched/core.c:unsigned long nr_iowait_cpu(int cpu)
> kernel/sched/core.c:unsigned long nr_iowait(void)
> kernel/sched/loadavg.c: long nr_active, delta = 0;
> kernel/sched/sched.h:   unsigned long           rt_nr_migratory;
> kernel/sched/sched.h:   unsigned long           rt_nr_total;
> kernel/sched/sched.h:   unsigned long           rt_nr_boosted;
> kernel/sched/sched.h:   unsigned long           dl_nr_running;
> kernel/sched/sched.h:   unsigned long           dl_nr_migratory;
> kernel/sched/sched.h:   unsigned long           nr_uninterruptible;

Sure. I changed nr_running() and nr_iowait() because they're in format
strings in /proc as %lu.