linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 02/10] mm: rename slab delayed deactivation functions and fields

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Message-ID: <CALvZod41GMxCdsp_XSHSYAri5NpO5suimJ3y8D5=LLai2=qd7Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 Jun 2019 11:17:05 -0700
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 02/10] mm: rename slab delayed deactivation functions
 and fields

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 4:18 PM Roman Gushchin <guro@...com> wrote:
>
> The delayed work/rcu deactivation infrastructure of non-root
> kmem_caches can be also used for asynchronous release of these
> objects. Let's get rid of the word "deactivation" in corresponding
> names to make the code look better after generalization.
>
> It's easier to make the renaming first, so that the generalized
> code will look consistent from scratch.
>
> Let's rename struct memcg_cache_params fields:
>   deact_fn -> work_fn
>   deact_rcu_head -> rcu_head
>   deact_work -> work
>
> And RCU/delayed work callbacks in slab common code:
>   kmemcg_deactivate_rcufn -> kmemcg_rcufn
>   kmemcg_deactivate_workfn -> kmemcg_workfn
>
> This patch contains no functional changes, only renamings.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>