Re: [RFC PATCH V2 1/9] include/linux/pagemap.h: introduce attach/clear_page_private

From: Al Viro
Date: Thu Apr 30 2020 - 21:42:55 EST


On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 03:13:38PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> > +/**
> > + * clear_page_private - clear page's private field and PG_private.
> > + * @page: page to be cleared.
> > + *
> > + * The counterpart function of attach_page_private.
> > + * Return: private data of page or NULL if page doesn't have private data.
> > + */
>
> Seems to me that the opposite of "attach" is "detach", not "clear".

Or "remove", perhaps...