On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 05:01:44PM -0400, Robert Foss wrote: > On 2016-08-09 03:24 PM, Jann Horn wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 12:05:43PM -0400, robert.f...@collabora.com wrote: > >>+ down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); > >>+ hold_task_mempolicy(priv); > >>+ > >>+ for (vma = mm->mmap; vma != priv->tail_vma; vma = vma->vm_next) { > >>+ struct mem_size_stats mss; > >>+ struct mm_walk smaps_walk = { > >>+ .pmd_entry = smaps_pte_range, > >>+ .mm = vma->vm_mm, > >>+ .private = &mss, > >>+ }; > >>+ > >>+ if (vma->vm_mm && !is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) { > >>+ memset(&mss, 0, sizeof(mss)); > >>+ walk_page_vma(vma, &smaps_walk); > >>+ add_smaps_sum(&mss, mss_sum); > >>+ } > >>+ } > > > >Errrr... what? You accumulate values from mem_size_stats items into a > >struct mss_sum that is associated with the struct file? So when you > >read the file the second time, you get the old values plus the new ones? > >And when you read the file in parallel, you get inconsistent values? > > > >For most files in procfs, the behavior is that you can just call > >pread(fd, buf, sizeof(buf), 0) on the same fd again and again, giving > >you the current values every time, without mutating state. I strongly > >recommend that you get rid of priv->mss and just accumulate the state > >in a local variable (maybe one on the stack). > > So a simple "static struct mem_size_stats" in totmaps_proc_show() would be a > better solution?
Er, why "static"? Are you trying to create shared state between different readers for some reason?
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