linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next 1/1] percpu: cleanup invalid assignment to err in pcpu

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Date:   Sun, 4 Dec 2022 16:30:56 -0800
From:   Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>
To:     Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>, Wupeng Ma <mawupeng1@...wei.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tj@...nel.org, cl@...ux.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next 1/1] percpu: cleanup invalid assignment to err in
 pcpu_alloc

Hi Baoquan and Wupeng,

On Sun, Dec 04, 2022 at 08:11:23PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 12/04/22 at 11:14am, Wupeng Ma wrote:
> > From: Ma Wupeng <mawupeng1@...wei.com>
> > 
> > Assignment to err if is_atomic is true will never be used since warn
> > message can only be shown if is_atomic is false after label fail. So drop
> > it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ma Wupeng <mawupeng1@...wei.com>
> > ---
> >  mm/percpu.c | 4 +---
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
> > index acd78da0493b..df86d79325b2 100644
> > --- a/mm/percpu.c
> > +++ b/mm/percpu.c
> > @@ -1817,10 +1817,8 @@ static void __percpu *pcpu_alloc(size_t size, size_t align, bool reserved,
> >  
> >  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pcpu_lock, flags);
> >  
> > -	if (is_atomic) {
> > -		err = "atomic alloc failed, no space left";
> > +	if (is_atomic)
> >  		goto fail;
> > -	}
> 
> This is good catch. But I think Dennis may not like this way because he
> added the message intentionally in commit 11df02bf9bc1 ("percpu: resolve
> err may not be initialized in pcpu_alloc").
> 

You're right Baoquan haha. I agree with Christoph as well we should
surface atomic.

Though I don't think below is quite right either. We should likely have
a separate warn_limit for atomic and I need to think about dump_stack()
if there are any requirements there.

Thanks,
Dennis

> Can we change the conditional checking in fail part as below?
> 
> diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
> index 27697b2429c2..0ac55500fad9 100644
> --- a/mm/percpu.c
> +++ b/mm/percpu.c
> @@ -1897,7 +1897,7 @@ static void __percpu *pcpu_alloc(size_t size, size_t align, bool reserved,
>  fail:
>  	trace_percpu_alloc_percpu_fail(reserved, is_atomic, size, align);
>  
> -	if (!is_atomic && do_warn && warn_limit) {
> +	if (do_warn && warn_limit) {
>  		pr_warn("allocation failed, size=%zu align=%zu atomic=%d, %s\n",
>  			size, align, is_atomic, err);
>  		dump_stack();
>