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From: "John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>,
	dave@sr71.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk, peterz@infradead.org, riel@redhat.com,
	rientjes@google.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 v4] mm/vmalloc: Cache the vmalloc memory info
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 09:11:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21979.6150.929309.800457@quad.stoffel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150824073422.GC13082@gmail.com>

>>>>> "Ingo" == Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> writes:

Ingo> * George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com> wrote:

>> First, an actual, albeit minor, bug: initializing both vmap_info_gen
>> and vmap_info_cache_gen to 0 marks the cache as valid, which it's not.

Ingo> Ha! :-) Fixed.

>> vmap_info_gen should be initialized to 1 to force an initial
>> cache update.

Blech, it should be initialized with a proper #define
VMAP_CACHE_NEEDS_UPDATE 1, instead of more magic numbers.


Ingo> + */
Ingo> +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(vmap_info_lock);
Ingo> +static int vmap_info_gen = 1;

   static int vmap_info_gen = VMAP_CACHE_NEEDS_UPDATE;

Ingo> +static int vmap_info_cache_gen;
Ingo> +static struct vmalloc_info vmap_info_cache;
Ingo> +#endif


This will help keep bugs like this out in the future... I hope!

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-24 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-23  4:48 [PATCH 0/3] mm/vmalloc: Cache the /proc/meminfo vmalloc statistics George Spelvin
2015-08-23  6:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-23  6:46   ` George Spelvin
2015-08-23  8:17     ` [PATCH 3/3 v3] mm/vmalloc: Cache the vmalloc memory info Ingo Molnar
2015-08-23 20:53       ` Rasmus Villemoes
2015-08-24  6:58         ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-24  8:39           ` Rasmus Villemoes
2015-08-23 21:56       ` Rasmus Villemoes
2015-08-24  7:00         ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-25 16:39         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-08-25 17:03           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-08-24  1:04       ` George Spelvin
2015-08-24  7:34         ` [PATCH 3/3 v4] " Ingo Molnar
2015-08-24  7:47           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-24  7:50             ` [PATCH 3/3 v5] " Ingo Molnar
2015-08-24 12:54               ` George Spelvin
2015-08-25  9:56                 ` [PATCH 3/3 v6] " Ingo Molnar
2015-08-25 10:36                   ` George Spelvin
2015-08-25 12:59                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-08-25 14:19                   ` Rasmus Villemoes
2015-08-25 15:11                     ` George Spelvin
2015-08-24 13:11           ` John Stoffel [this message]
2015-08-24 15:11             ` [PATCH 3/3 v4] " George Spelvin
2015-08-24 15:55               ` John Stoffel
2015-08-25 12:46       ` [PATCH 3/3 v3] " Peter Zijlstra

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