Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] mm: memcontrol: rename lruvec_holds_page_lru_lock to page_matches_lruvec

From: Muchun Song
Date: Fri Apr 16 2021 - 22:55:51 EST


On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 11:20 PM Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.