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

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Message-ID: <CAMZfGtVOATBUgP7ZiyM4w9twhd1-z-gTd865r+Lb0CPtt=ZJjg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 17 Apr 2021 10:52:12 +0800
From:   Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Xiongchun duan <duanxiongchun@...edance.com>
Subject: Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] mm: memcontrol: rename
 lruvec_holds_page_lru_lock to page_matches_lruvec

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 11:20 PM Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> wrote:
>
> 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() */

Make sense. I will add this comment.

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

Thanks.