On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:17:27 +0300
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Use atomic-long operations instead of looping around cmpxchg().
>
Seems nice.
> diff --git a/include/linux/shrinker.h b/include/linux/shrinker.h
> index 790651b..ac6b8ee 100644
> --- a/include/linux/shrinker.h
> +++ b/include/linux/shrinker.h
> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ struct shrinker {
>
> /* These are for internal use */
> struct list_head list;
> - long nr; /* objs pending delete */
> + atomic_long_t nr_in_batch; /* objs pending delete */
> };
This makes shrinker.h have a dependency on atomic.h. shrinker.h is a
strange thing that doesn't include its own dependent header files - the
shrinker.h includer is responsible for that. And they both need
fixups, for safety's sake:
include/linux/fs.h | 2 +-
include/linux/mm.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/mm.h~vmscan-use-atomic-long-for-shrinker-batching-fix
+++ a/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#include <linux/mmzone.h>
#include <linux/rbtree.h>
#include <linux/prio_tree.h>
+#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include <linux/debug_locks.h>
#include <linux/mm_types.h>
#include <linux/range.h>
--- a/include/linux/fs.h~vmscan-use-atomic-long-for-shrinker-batching-fix
+++ a/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -394,8 +394,8 @@ struct inodes_stat_t {
#include <linux/semaphore.h>
#include <linux/fiemap.h>
#include <linux/rculist_bl.h>
-#include <linux/shrinker.h>
#include <linux/atomic.h>
+#include <linux/shrinker.h>
#include <asm/byteorder.h>
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