Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] rcu/kfree: Fix kfree_rcu_shrink_count() return value

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Mon Jun 27 2022 - 16:59:13 EST


On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 08:56:43PM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> > As per the comments in include/linux/shrinker.h, .count_objects callback
> > should return the number of freeable items, but if there are no objects
> > to free, SHRINK_EMPTY should be returned. The only time 0 is returned
> > should be when we are unable to determine the number of objects, or the
> > cache should be skipped for another reason.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > kernel/rcu/tree.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > index 711679d10cbb..935788e8d2d7 100644
> > --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > @@ -3722,7 +3722,7 @@ kfree_rcu_shrink_count(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc)
> > atomic_set(&krcp->backoff_page_cache_fill, 1);
> > }
> >
> > - return count;
> > + return count == 0 ? SHRINK_EMPTY : count;
> > }
> >
> > static unsigned long
> > --
> > 2.37.0.rc0.104.g0611611a94-goog
> >
> Looks good to me!
>
> Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@xxxxxxxxx>

Now that you mention it, this does look independent of the rest of
the series. I have pulled it in with Uladzislau's Reviewed-by.

Thanx, Paul