On 07/11/2014 11:17 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > >>> Converted what? We still need to keep a cpumask around that tells us which >>> processor have vmstat running and which do not. >>> >> >> Converted to cpumask_var_t. >> >> I mean we spent dozens emails on that... > > > Oh there is this outstanding fix, right. > > > Subject: on demand vmstat: Do not open code alloc_cpumask_var > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> > > Index: linux/mm/vmstat.c > =================================================================== > --- linux.orig/mm/vmstat.c 2014-07-11 10:15:55.356856916 -0500 > +++ linux/mm/vmstat.c 2014-07-11 10:15:55.352856994 -0500 > @@ -1244,7 +1244,7 @@ > #ifdef CONFIG_SMP > static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct delayed_work, vmstat_work); > int sysctl_stat_interval __read_mostly = HZ; > -struct cpumask *cpu_stat_off; > +cpumask_var_t cpu_stat_off; > > static void vmstat_update(struct work_struct *w) > { > @@ -1338,7 +1338,8 @@ > INIT_DEFERRABLE_WORK(per_cpu_ptr(&vmstat_work, cpu), > vmstat_update); > > - cpu_stat_off = kmalloc(cpumask_size(), GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&cpu_stat_off, GFP_KERNEL)) > + BUG(); BUG_ON(!alloc_cpumask_var(&cpu_stat_off, GFP_KERNEL)); > cpumask_copy(cpu_stat_off, cpu_online_mask); > > schedule_delayed_work(&shepherd, > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > . > -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>