Re: [patch for-3.7 v2] mm, mempolicy: avoid taking mutex insidespinlock when reading numa_maps

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Oct 18 2012 - 00:14:57 EST


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Kamezawa Hiroyuki
<kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> if (vma && vma != priv->tail_vma) {
> struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> + task_lock(priv->task);
> + __mpol_put(priv->task->mempolicy);
> + task_unlock(priv->task);
> +#endif
> up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> mmput(mm);

Please don't put #ifdef's inside code. It makes things really ugly and
hard to read.

And that is *especially* true in this case, since there's a pattern to
all these things:

> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> + task_lock(priv->task);
> + mpol_get(priv->task->mempolicy);
> + task_unlock(priv->task);
> +#endif

> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> + task_lock(priv->task);
> + __mpol_put(priv->task->mempolicy);
> + task_unlock(priv->task);
> +#endif

it really sounds like what you want to do is to just abstract a
"numa_policy_get/put(priv)" operation.

So you could make it be something like

#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
static inline numa_policy_get(struct proc_maps_private *priv)
{
task_lock(priv->task);
mpol_get(priv->task->mempolicy);
task_unlock(priv->task);
}
.. same for the "put" function ..
#else
#define numa_policy_get(priv) do { } while (0)
#define numa_policy_put(priv) do { } while (0)
#endif

and then you wouldn't have to have the #ifdef's in the middle of code,
and I think it will be more readable in general.

Sure, it is going to be a few more actual lines of patch, but there's
no duplicated code sequence, and the added lines are just the syntax
that makes it look better.

Linus
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