linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 17/27] mm: Rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON

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Message-ID: <46c75f05-7a07-9f9d-3bf5-461971e2ecc4@suse.cz>
Date:	Fri, 17 Jun 2016 10:28:50 +0200
From:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Cc:	Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/27] mm: Rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED

On 06/09/2016 08:04 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> NR_FILE_PAGES  is the number of        file pages.
> NR_FILE_MAPPED is the number of mapped file pages.
> NR_ANON_PAGES  is the number of mapped anon pages.
>
> This is unhelpful naming as it's easy to confuse NR_FILE_MAPPED and NR_ANON_PAGES for
> mapped pages. This patch renames NR_ANON_PAGES so we have
>
> NR_FILE_PAGES  is the number of        file pages.
> NR_FILE_MAPPED is the number of mapped file pages.
> NR_ANON_MAPPED is the number of mapped anon pages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>