[PATCH] mm: Use unsigned types for fragmentation score

From: Nitin Gupta
Date: Wed Jun 17 2020 - 21:03:57 EST


Proactive compaction uses per-node/zone "fragmentation score" which
is always in range [0, 100], so use unsigned type of these scores
as well as for related constants.

Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <nigupta@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/compaction.h | 4 ++--
kernel/sysctl.c | 2 +-
mm/compaction.c | 18 +++++++++---------
mm/vmstat.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/compaction.h b/include/linux/compaction.h
index 7a242d46454e..25a521d299c1 100644
--- a/include/linux/compaction.h
+++ b/include/linux/compaction.h
@@ -85,13 +85,13 @@ static inline unsigned long compact_gap(unsigned int order)

#ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION
extern int sysctl_compact_memory;
-extern int sysctl_compaction_proactiveness;
+extern unsigned int sysctl_compaction_proactiveness;
extern int sysctl_compaction_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos);
extern int sysctl_extfrag_threshold;
extern int sysctl_compact_unevictable_allowed;

-extern int extfrag_for_order(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order);
+extern unsigned int extfrag_for_order(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order);
extern int fragmentation_index(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order);
extern enum compact_result try_to_compact_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask,
unsigned int order, unsigned int alloc_flags,
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 58b0a59c9769..40180cdde486 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -2833,7 +2833,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
{
.procname = "compaction_proactiveness",
.data = &sysctl_compaction_proactiveness,
- .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_compaction_proactiveness),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
.extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO,
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index ac2030814edb..45fd24a0ea0b 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static inline void count_compact_events(enum vm_event_item item, long delta)
/*
* Fragmentation score check interval for proactive compaction purposes.
*/
-static const int HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC = 500;
+static const unsigned int HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC = 500;

/*
* Page order with-respect-to which proactive compaction
@@ -1890,7 +1890,7 @@ static bool kswapd_is_running(pg_data_t *pgdat)
* ZONE_DMA32. For smaller zones, the score value remains close to zero,
* and thus never exceeds the high threshold for proactive compaction.
*/
-static int fragmentation_score_zone(struct zone *zone)
+static unsigned int fragmentation_score_zone(struct zone *zone)
{
unsigned long score;

@@ -1906,9 +1906,9 @@ static int fragmentation_score_zone(struct zone *zone)
* the node's score falls below the low threshold, or one of the back-off
* conditions is met.
*/
-static int fragmentation_score_node(pg_data_t *pgdat)
+static unsigned int fragmentation_score_node(pg_data_t *pgdat)
{
- unsigned long score = 0;
+ unsigned int score = 0;
int zoneid;

for (zoneid = 0; zoneid < MAX_NR_ZONES; zoneid++) {
@@ -1921,17 +1921,17 @@ static int fragmentation_score_node(pg_data_t *pgdat)
return score;
}

-static int fragmentation_score_wmark(pg_data_t *pgdat, bool low)
+static unsigned int fragmentation_score_wmark(pg_data_t *pgdat, bool low)
{
- int wmark_low;
+ unsigned int wmark_low;

/*
* Cap the low watermak to avoid excessive compaction
* activity in case a user sets the proactivess tunable
* close to 100 (maximum).
*/
- wmark_low = max(100 - sysctl_compaction_proactiveness, 5);
- return low ? wmark_low : min(wmark_low + 10, 100);
+ wmark_low = max(100U - sysctl_compaction_proactiveness, 5U);
+ return low ? wmark_low : min(wmark_low + 10, 100U);
}

static bool should_proactive_compact_node(pg_data_t *pgdat)
@@ -2604,7 +2604,7 @@ int sysctl_compact_memory;
* aggressively the kernel should compact memory in the
* background. It takes values in the range [0, 100].
*/
-int __read_mostly sysctl_compaction_proactiveness = 20;
+unsigned int __read_mostly sysctl_compaction_proactiveness = 20;

/*
* This is the entry point for compacting all nodes via
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 3e7ba8bce2ba..b1de695b826d 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -1079,7 +1079,7 @@ static int __fragmentation_index(unsigned int order, struct contig_page_info *in
* It is defined as the percentage of pages found in blocks of size
* less than 1 << order. It returns values in range [0, 100].
*/
-int extfrag_for_order(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order)
+unsigned int extfrag_for_order(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order)
{
struct contig_page_info info;

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2.27.0