linux-kernel - Re: [External] Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix kernel stack account

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Message-ID: <CALvZod43npnPvsmVSfjEKy3HY-87TRx+jP1cntryUEGp2C47_w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 2 Mar 2021 06:04:25 -0800
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [External] Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix kernel stack account

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 1:34 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com> wrote:
>
[snip]
> > Yeah, imprecision may
> > not be a problem. But if this is what we did deliberately, I think that
> > it is better to add a comment there. Thanks.
>
> Yes the comment is quite confusing. I suspect it meant to say
>         /* All stack pages are accounted to the same node */
>

Most probably I meant to say "For simplicity let's just assume all
stack pages are on the same node." but we can easily make this more
accurate.