Re: [PATCH 2/3] percpu counter: cast this_cpu_sub() adjustment

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Sun Oct 27 2013 - 09:00:46 EST


On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 05:04:29AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 07:22:55 -0400 Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > We probably want to cc stable for this and the next one. How should
> > these be routed? I can take these through percpu tree or mm works
> > too. Either way, it'd be best to route them together.
>
> Yes, all three look like -stable material to me. I'll grab them later
> in the week if you haven't ;)

Tried to apply to percpu but the third one is a fix for a patch which
was added to -mm during v3.12-rc1, so these are yours. :)

> The names of the first two patches distress me. They rather clearly
> assert that the code affects percpu_counter.[ch], but that is not the case.
> Massaging is needed to fix that up.

Yeah, something like the following would be better

percpu: add test module for various percpu operations
percpu: fix this_cpu_sub() subtrahend casting for unsigneds
memcg: use __this_cpu_sub() to dec stats to avoid incorrect subtrahend casting

Thanks.

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tejun
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