linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 08/14] mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks

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Date:   Thu, 14 Apr 2022 23:30:22 -0600
From:   Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 08/14] mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 1:10 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 07:16:21PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed,  6 Apr 2022 21:15:20 -0600 Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_LRU_GEN
> > > +static void mem_cgroup_attach(struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
> > > +{
> > > +   struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
> > > +   struct task_struct *task = NULL;
> > > +
> > > +   cgroup_taskset_for_each_leader(task, css, tset)
> > > +           break;
> >
> > Does this actually do anything?
>
> Yeah, it finds the first leader if there is any, but this is indeed
> quite terrible coding style.

I've added a one liner comment "find the first leader if there is
any", for now. I'm open to other suggestions.