linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2 1/4] mm: rename huge_zero_page_shrinker to huge_zero_folio

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Message-ID: <88296851-3bbe-44fc-a507-70964c0bea8c@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2025 17:30:46 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@...il.com>,
 "Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)" <kernel@...kajraghav.com>,
 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>, Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC v2 1/4] mm: rename huge_zero_page_shrinker to
 huge_zero_folio_shrinker

On 01.08.25 06:18, Ritesh Harjani (IBM) wrote:
> "Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)" <kernel@...kajraghav.com> writes:
> 
>> From: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@...sung.com>
>>
>> As we already moved from exposing huge_zero_page to huge_zero_folio,
>> change the name of the shrinker to reflect that.
>>
> 
> Why not change get_huge_zero_page() to get_huge_zero_folio() too, for
> consistent naming?

Then we should also rename put_huge_zero_folio(). Renaming 
MMF_HUGE_ZERO_PAGE should probably be done separately.

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb