Re: [PATCH 04/13] mm: Track NR_KERNEL_STACK in pages instead of number of stacks

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Thu Jun 16 2016 - 11:33:47 EST


On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 05:28:26PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Currently, NR_KERNEL_STACK tracks the number of kernel stacks in a
> zone. This only makes sense if each kernel stack exists entirely in
> one zone, and allowing vmapped stacks could break this assumption.
>
> It turns out that the code for tracking kernel stack allocations in
> units of pages is slightly simpler, so just switch to counting
> pages.
>
> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/proc/meminfo.c | 2 +-
> kernel/fork.c | 3 ++-
> mm/page_alloc.c | 3 +--
> 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

You missed another usage of NR_KERNEL_STACK in drivers/base/node.c.


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Josh