Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] mm: reference totalram_pages and managed_pages once per function | From | Vlastimil Babka <> | Date | Thu, 8 Nov 2018 12:44:53 +0100 |
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On 11/8/18 9:23 AM, Arun KS wrote: > This patch is in preparation to a later patch which converts totalram_pages > and zone->managed_pages to atomic variables. Please note that re-reading > the value might lead to a different value and as such it could lead to > unexpected behavior. There are no known bugs as a result of the current code > but it is better to prevent from them in principle.
..., which will happen after the atomic conversion in the next patch.
> Signed-off-by: Arun KS <arunks@codeaurora.org> > Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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