Re: [PATCH] mm/doc: Replace isolate_lru_page with folio_isolate_lru

[Mike Rapoport]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 11:02:11AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Kuan-Ying Lee <Kuan-Ying.Lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Since we introduce folio, replace isolate_lru_page() with
> > folio_isolate_lru().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kuan-Ying Lee <Kuan-Ying.Lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst | 6 +++---
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> This seems like a good patch to copy to linux-mm - done now.
> 
> The patch perhaps is a closer match to what's in linux-next, but it
> seems that, if we're going to update this document, we should reflect
> the use folios throughout?

Most of the current users of migrate_pages() still use isolate_lru_page()
so I think that updating page_migration.rst to folios is premature.
But when we do the update it also should include the translations.
 
> Thanks,
> 
> jon
> 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst
> > index 11493bad7112..1f8cc175d770 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst
> > @@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ In kernel use of migrate_pages()
> >  
> >     Lists of pages to be migrated are generated by scanning over
> >     pages and moving them into lists. This is done by
> > -   calling isolate_lru_page().
> > -   Calling isolate_lru_page() increases the references to the page
> > +   calling folio_isolate_lru().
> > +   Calling folio_isolate_lru() increases the references to the page
> >     so that it cannot vanish while the page migration occurs.
> >     It also prevents the swapper or other scans from encountering
> >     the page.
> > @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ How migrate_pages() works
> >  
> >  migrate_pages() does several passes over its list of pages. A page is moved
> >  if all references to a page are removable at the time. The page has
> > -already been removed from the LRU via isolate_lru_page() and the refcount
> > +already been removed from the LRU via folio_isolate_lru() and the refcount
> >  is increased so that the page cannot be freed while page migration occurs.
> >  
> >  Steps:
> > -- 
> > 2.18.0
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.