[PATCH] mm/doc: Replace isolate_lru_page with folio_isolate_lru
Jonathan Corbet
corbet at lwn.net
Thu Feb 2 10:02:11 PST 2023
Kuan-Ying Lee <Kuan-Ying.Lee at mediatek.com> writes:
> Since we introduce folio, replace isolate_lru_page() with
> folio_isolate_lru().
>
> Signed-off-by: Kuan-Ying Lee <Kuan-Ying.Lee at mediatek.com>
> ---
> 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?
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
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