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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 06:35:48 -0700
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: don't miss the last page because of round-off
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To: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kernel-team@fb.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 08:11:44AM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 4:22 AM, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 04:18:34PM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> >> -                     scan = div64_u64(scan * fraction[file],
> >> -                                      denominator);
> >> +                     if (scan > 1)
> >> +                             scan = div64_u64(scan * fraction[file],
> >> +                                              denominator);
> >
> > Wouldn't we be better off doing a div_round_up?  ie:
> >
> >         scan = div64_u64(scan * fraction[file] + denominator - 1, denominator);
> >
> > although i'd rather hide that in a new macro in math64.h than opencode it
> > here.
> 
> All numbers here should be up to nr_pages * 200 and fit into unsigned long.
> I see no reason for u64. If they overflow then u64 wouldn't help either.

Shaohua added the div64 usage initially, adding him to the cc.

> There is macro DIV_ROUND_UP in kernel.h

Indeed there is.