linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Rename ambiguously named memory.stat counters and functions

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Message-ID: <20190211185535.GB13953@cmpxchg.org>
Date:   Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:55:35 -0500
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:     Chris Down <chris@...isdown.name>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Rename ambiguously named memory.stat counters
 and functions

On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 10:43:19PM +0000, Chris Down wrote:
> I spent literally an hour trying to work out why an earlier version of
> my memory.events aggregation code doesn't work properly, only to find
> out I was calling memcg->events instead of memcg->memory_events, which
> is fairly confusing.
> 
> This naming seems in need of reworking, so make it harder to do the
> wrong thing by using vmevents instead of events, which makes it more
> clear that these are vm counters rather than memcg-specific counters.
> 
> There are also a few other inconsistent names in both the percpu and
> aggregated structs, so these are all cleaned up to be more coherent and
> easy to understand.
> 
> This commit contains code cleanup only: there are no logic changes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@...isdown.name>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: cgroups@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
> Cc: kernel-team@...com

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>