Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: Rename ambiguously named memory.stat counters and functions

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Mon Feb 11 2019 - 13:55:41 EST


On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 10:43:19PM +0000, Chris Down wrote:
> I spent literally an hour trying to work out why an earlier version of
> my memory.events aggregation code doesn't work properly, only to find
> out I was calling memcg->events instead of memcg->memory_events, which
> is fairly confusing.
>
> This naming seems in need of reworking, so make it harder to do the
> wrong thing by using vmevents instead of events, which makes it more
> clear that these are vm counters rather than memcg-specific counters.
>
> There are also a few other inconsistent names in both the percpu and
> aggregated structs, so these are all cleaned up to be more coherent and
> easy to understand.
>
> This commit contains code cleanup only: there are no logic changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: cgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxx

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>