linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm/mempolicy: Use the already fetched local variable

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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 10:03:48 +0100
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Donet Tom <donettom@...ux.ibm.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@...el.com>,
	Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
	Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm/mempolicy: Use the already fetched local variable

On Tue 20-02-24 15:22:07, Huang, Ying wrote:
[...]
> This isn't an issue now, because mpol_misplaced() are always called with
> PTL held.  And, we can still keep thiscpu local variable.

yes, this is the case but it would be better if we made that assumption
official by lockdep_assert_held

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs