From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
mgorman@techsingularity.net, tj@kernel.org, hughd@google.com,
khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru, daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com,
yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com, willy@infradead.org,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Arun KS <arunks@codeaurora.org>,
Rong Chen <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] mm/lruvec: add irqsave flags into lruvec struct
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 22:46:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191122064645.GA11261@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1573874106-23802-3-git-send-email-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 11:15:01AM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> We need a irqflags vaiable to save state when do irqsave action, declare
> it here would make code more clear/clean.
This patch is wrong on multiple levels. Adding a field without the
users is completely pointless. And as a general pattern we never
add the irqsave flags to sturctures. They are an intimate part of the
calling conventions, and storing them in a structure will lead to
subtile bugs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-22 6:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-16 3:14 [PATCH v3 0/8] per lruvec lru_lock for memcg Alex Shi
2019-11-16 3:15 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] mm/lru: add per lruvec lock " Alex Shi
2019-11-16 6:28 ` Shakeel Butt
2019-11-18 2:44 ` Alex Shi
2019-11-18 12:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-11-18 12:37 ` Alex Shi
2019-11-19 10:05 ` Alex Shi
2019-11-16 3:15 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] mm/lruvec: add irqsave flags into lruvec struct Alex Shi
2019-11-16 6:31 ` Shakeel Butt
2019-11-18 2:52 ` Alex Shi
2019-11-22 6:46 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-11-16 3:15 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] mm/lru: replace pgdat lru_lock with lruvec lock Alex Shi
2019-11-16 4:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-11-18 11:55 ` Alex Shi
2019-11-18 12:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-11-18 12:31 ` Alex Shi
2019-11-18 12:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-11-19 10:14 ` Alex Shi
2019-11-16 7:03 ` Shakeel Butt
2019-11-18 12:23 ` Alex Shi
2019-11-18 12:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-11-19 10:08 ` Alex Shi
2019-11-18 16:11 ` Johannes Weiner
2019-11-19 10:04 ` Alex Shi
2019-11-19 2:10 ` Daniel Jordan
2019-11-19 10:10 ` Alex Shi
2019-11-16 3:15 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] mm/lru: only change the lru_lock iff page's lruvec is different Alex Shi
2019-11-16 3:15 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] mm/pgdat: remove pgdat lru_lock Alex Shi
2019-11-16 3:15 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] mm/lru: likely enhancement Alex Shi
2019-11-16 3:15 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] mm/lru: revise the comments of lru_lock Alex Shi
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