linux-kernel - Re: [v7 PATCH 06/12] mm: vmscan: add shrinker_info

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Message-ID: <cbdf0d68-db66-842e-2d4c-261e3e69245d@suse.cz>
Date:   Wed, 10 Feb 2021 19:17:48 +0100
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>, guro@...com, ktkhai@...tuozzo.com,
        shakeelb@...gle.com, david@...morbit.com, hannes@...xchg.org,
        mhocko@...e.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v7 PATCH 06/12] mm: vmscan: add shrinker_info_protected() helper

On 2/9/21 6:46 PM, Yang Shi wrote:
> The shrinker_info is dereferenced in a couple of places via rcu_dereference_protected
> with different calling conventions, for example, using mem_cgroup_nodeinfo helper
> or dereferencing memcg->nodeinfo[nid]->shrinker_info.  And the later patch
> will add more dereference places.
> 
> So extract the dereference into a helper to make the code more readable.  No
> functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>