Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] vmscan: don't subtraction of unsined

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On Thu,  8 Jul 2010 16:38:10 +0900 (JST)
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 'slab_reclaimable' and 'nr_pages' are unsigned. so, subtraction is
> unsafe.
> 
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c |   14 +++++++-------
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 9c7e57c..8715da1 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -2588,7 +2588,7 @@ static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
>  		.swappiness = vm_swappiness,
>  		.order = order,
>  	};
> -	unsigned long slab_reclaimable;
> +	unsigned long n, m;

Please use better identifiers.

>  	disable_swap_token();
>  	cond_resched();
> @@ -2615,8 +2615,8 @@ static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
>  		} while (priority >= 0 && sc.nr_reclaimed < nr_pages);
>  	}
>  
> -	slab_reclaimable = zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE);
> -	if (slab_reclaimable > zone->min_slab_pages) {
> +	n = zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE);
> +	if (n > zone->min_slab_pages) {
>  		/*
>  		 * shrink_slab() does not currently allow us to determine how
>  		 * many pages were freed in this zone. So we take the current
> @@ -2628,16 +2628,16 @@ static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
>  		 * take a long time.
>  		 */
>  		while (shrink_slab(sc.nr_scanned, gfp_mask, order) &&
> -			zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE) >
> -				slab_reclaimable - nr_pages)
> +		       (zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE) + nr_pages > n))
>  			;
>  
>  		/*
>  		 * Update nr_reclaimed by the number of slab pages we
>  		 * reclaimed from this zone.
>  		 */
> -		sc.nr_reclaimed += slab_reclaimable -
> -			zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE);
> +		m = zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE);
> +		if (m < n)
> +			sc.nr_reclaimed += n - m;

And it's not a completly trivial objection.  Your patch made the above
code snippet quite a lot harder to read (and hence harder to maintain).

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