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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: convert totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and managed_pages to atomic.
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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

> #define totalram_pages_inc() (unsigned long)atomic_long_inc(&_totalram_pages)
> #define totalram_pages_dec() (unsigned long)atomic_long_dec(&_totalram_pages)

these are void


conversion zone->managed_pages should be split into separate patch


[dropped bloated cc - my server rejects this mess]

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