Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] fs/proc/page: use a folio in stable_page_flags()

[Kefeng Wang]

On 2023/11/11 2:15, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 11:33:19AM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> > Replace nine compound_head() calls with one page_folio().
>
> But that's not all it does.  Honestly, when you write these kind of
> things, I wonder if you understand what you're doing.

Oh, yes, I total wrong for some change, the kpagelfags should report
per-page.

> After this patch, if we report on a tail page, we set (some of) the
> flags according to how its head page is set.  Before, we would have not
> reported on it at all.

I should force on the following specific flags in this patch

1) PageKsm
   - KSM only normal anon page, also it is wrapper of folio_test_ksm()
2) struct page *head = compound_head(page); PageLRU(head) PageAnon(head)
   - they expect to check the head page flags
3) page_count(page) == 0 && is_free_buddy_page(page)
   - this is to identify free buddy page, also page_count is a wrapper
     of folio_ref_count
4) page_is_idle
   - a wrapper of folio_test_idle

Matthew and Gregory, correct me if I am still misunderstanding, man thanks.
> This was THE ENTIRE POINT of Greg's patch.  And why his patch made sense
> and yours is nonsense.  Andrew, please drop this patch series.