Re: [PATCH] staging: android: lowmemorykiller.c: Fix checkpatch warning

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Sep 01 2016 - 17:13:55 EST


On Thu, 2016-09-01 at 20:33 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 11:19:41AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2016-09-01 at 17:36 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 06:26:48PM +0300, Andrey Utkin wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:10:25AM -0400, Anson Jacob wrote:
> > > > > Fix checkpatch.pl 'line over 80 characters' warning
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> > > > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
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> > > > > @@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ static unsigned long lowmem_scan(struct shrinker *s, struct shrink_control *sc)
> > > > >   int array_size = ARRAY_SIZE(lowmem_adj);
> > > > >   int other_free = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) - totalreserve_pages;
> > > > >   int other_file = global_node_page_state(NR_FILE_PAGES) -
> > > > > - global_node_page_state(NR_SHMEM) -
> > > > > - total_swapcache_pages();
> > > > > + global_node_page_state(NR_SHMEM) -
> > > > > + total_swapcache_pages();
> > > > >  
> > > > >   if (lowmem_adj_size < array_size)
> > > > >   array_size = lowmem_adj_size;
> > > > Indeed original alignment on opening brace here doesn't make sense.
> > > > I don't mind if your patch gets accepted, but out of curiosity I have opened
> > > > this file in vim with kernel coding style plugin loaded
> > > > (https://github.com/vivien/vim-linux-coding-style), selected the affected
> > > > lines, and reindented the selection by pressing 'gq'. It ended up with this,
> > > > being both shorter and simpler:
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
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> > > > @@ -92,8 +92,7 @@ static unsigned long lowmem_scan(struct shrinker *s, struct shrink_control *sc)
> > > >   int array_size = ARRAY_SIZE(lowmem_adj);
> > > >   int other_free = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) - totalreserve_pages;
> > > >   int other_file = global_node_page_state(NR_FILE_PAGES) -
> > > > - global_node_page_state(NR_SHMEM) -
> > > > - total_swapcache_pages();
> > > > + global_node_page_state(NR_SHMEM) - total_swapcache_pages();
> > > The original patch here is nicer to read, don't you think?
> > Strictly, these should probably be unsigned long instead of int
> > as that's the return type of global_[node_]page_state().
> >
> > Maybe something like the below, but then maybe other_free/file
> > should become unsigned long too.
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> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
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> > @@ -90,10 +90,11 @@ static unsigned long lowmem_scan(struct shrinker *s, struct shrink_control *sc)
> >   int selected_tasksize = 0;
> >   short selected_oom_score_adj;
> >   int array_size = ARRAY_SIZE(lowmem_adj);
> > - int other_free = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) - totalreserve_pages;
> > - int other_file = global_node_page_state(NR_FILE_PAGES) -
> > - global_node_page_state(NR_SHMEM) -
> > - total_swapcache_pages();
> > + unsigned long nr_free = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES);
> > + unsigned long nr_file = global_node_page_state(NR_FILE_PAGES);
> > + unsigned long nr_shmem = global_node_page_state(NR_SHMEM);
> > + int other_free = nr_free - totalreserve_pages;
> > + int other_file = nr_file - nr_shmem - total_swapcache_pages();
> >  
> >   if (lowmem_adj_size < array_size)
> >   array_size = lowmem_adj_size;
> I like it, much easier to follow.  Care to resend it in a patch form I
> can apply it in?

I think the android folk should figure out what the right thing
to do with the int/unsigned long calculation is first.

Arve?  Riley?