Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] mm: Factor out the pagetable pages account into new helper function

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Jun 23 2022 - 12:07:29 EST


On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 04:58:52PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
> +static inline void pgtable_set_and_inc(struct page *page)
> +{
> + __SetPageTable(page);
> + inc_lruvec_page_state(page, NR_PAGETABLE);
> +}

I don't like the names. The accounting is also wrong for non-order-0
allocations. It should be

mod_lruvec_page_state(page, NR_PAGETABLE, compound_nr(page))

but it's probably better to change the API to pass in the number of
pages instead of recalculating it.

I can't think of a good name. What's wrong with just adding

static inline bool pgtable_pud_page_ctor(struct page *page)

to go along with the pte and pmd variants?