linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] mm: memcontrol: rename lruvec_holds_page_lru_lock to page_matches

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Date:   Fri, 16 Apr 2021 11:20:49 -0400
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
Cc:     guro@...com, mhocko@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        shakeelb@...gle.com, vdavydov.dev@...il.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        duanxiongchun@...edance.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] mm: memcontrol: rename lruvec_holds_page_lru_lock
 to page_matches_lruvec

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 01:14:04PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> lruvec_holds_page_lru_lock() doesn't check anything about locking and is
> used to check whether the page belongs to the lruvec. So rename it to
> page_matches_lruvec().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>

The rename makes sense, since the previous name was defined by a
specific use case rather than what it does. That said, it did imply a
lock context that makes the test result stable. Without that the
function could use a short comment, IMO. How about:

/* Test requires a stable page->memcg binding, see page_memcg() */

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