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From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Date:   Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:04:59 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: convert totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and
 managed_pages to atomic.
To:     Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Arun KS <arunks@codeaurora.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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        Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
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        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 10:11 PM, Konstantin Khlebnikov
<khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
> On 23.10.2018 7:15, Joe Perches wrote:> On Mon, 2018-10-22 at 22:53 +0530,
> Arun KS wrote:
>>> Remove managed_page_count_lock spinlock and instead use atomic
>>> variables.
>>
>> Perhaps better to define and use macros for the accesses
>> instead of specific uses of atomic_long_<inc/dec/read>
>>
>> Something like:
>>
>> #define totalram_pages()      (unsigned
>> long)atomic_long_read(&_totalram_pages)
>
> or proper static inline
> this code isn't so low level for breaking include dependencies with macro

BTW, I noticed a few places in the patch that did multiple evaluations
of totalram_pages. It might be worth fixing those prior to doing the
conversion, too. e.g.:

if (totalram_pages > something)
   foobar(totalram_pages); <- value may have changed here

should, instead, be:

var = totalram_pages; <- get stable view of the value
if (var > something)
    foobar(var);

-Kees

> [dropped bloated cc - my server rejects this mess]

Thank you -- I was struggling to figure out the best way to reply to this. :)

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook