linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH lttng-modules 4/5] fix: mm: move recent_rotated pages calculation to shrink_inactive

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Message-ID: <20190521171602.09481e99@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Tue, 21 May 2019 17:16:02 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc:     Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@...icios.com>,
        lttng-dev <lttng-dev@...ts.lttng.org>,
        Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH lttng-modules 4/5] fix: mm: move recent_rotated pages
 calculation to shrink_inactive_list() (v5.2)

On Tue, 21 May 2019 16:53:36 -0400 (EDT)
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com> wrote:

> So I recommend we do the following in lttng-modules:
> 
> Rename the field nr_activate0 to nr_activate_anon,
> Rename the field nr_activate1 to nr_activate_file.
> 
> So users can make something out of those tracepoints without digging
> into the kernel source code.
> 
> Even if Steven and Kirill end up choosing to change the name of those
> fields upstream in trace-event, it won't have any impact on lttng-modules.
> 
> It would make sense to change those newly introduced exposed names in the
> upstream kernel as well though.

I'm fine with whatever Kirill decides.

-- Steve