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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-team@fb.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: don't miss the last page because of round-off error
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:15:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180821171555.GA16545@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALYGNiOf_0fR4R747J11JNROO7_FW_9u16Bg09f+CdWPiFwGvw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 08:11:44AM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 4:22 AM, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 04:18:34PM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> >> -                     scan = div64_u64(scan * fraction[file],
> >> -                                      denominator);
> >> +                     if (scan > 1)
> >> +                             scan = div64_u64(scan * fraction[file],
> >> +                                              denominator);
> >
> > Wouldn't we be better off doing a div_round_up?  ie:
> >
> >         scan = div64_u64(scan * fraction[file] + denominator - 1, denominator);
> >
> > although i'd rather hide that in a new macro in math64.h than opencode it
> > here.
> 
> All numbers here should be up to nr_pages * 200 and fit into unsigned long.
> I see no reason for u64. If they overflow then u64 wouldn't help either.

It is nr_pages * 200 * recent_scanned, where recent_scanned can be up
to four times of what's on the LRUs. That can overflow a u32 with even
small amounts of memory.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-21 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-17 23:18 [PATCH RFC] mm: don't miss the last page because of round-off error Roman Gushchin
2018-08-18  1:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-08-20 17:19   ` Roman Gushchin
2018-08-21  5:11   ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2018-08-21 13:35     ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-08-21 17:15     ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2018-08-22  6:01       ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2018-08-22 17:50         ` Roman Gushchin

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