On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 04:23:21AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> This patch extracts all the operations on counters protected by the
> page table lock (currently rss and anon_rss) into definitions in
> include/linux/sched.h. All rss operations are performed through
> the following three macros:
>
> get_mm_counter(mm, member) -> Obtain the value of a counter
> set_mm_counter(mm, member, value) -> Set the value of a counter
> update_mm_counter(mm, member, value) -> Add a value to a counter
Splitting this last one into inc_mm_counter() and dec_mm_counter()
means you can kill off the last argument, and get some of the
readability back. As it stands, I think this patch adds a bunch
of obfuscation for no clear benefit.
Dave
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