[PATCH v5 10/11] mm/Kconfig: Adds config option to track lockless pagetable walks

Leonardo Bras leonardo at linux.ibm.com
Fri Oct 4 05:08:45 AEST 2019


On Thu, 2019-10-03 at 16:04 -0300, Leonardo Bras wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-10-02 at 22:08 -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> > Can’t this name and all those new *lockless* function names be shorter? 
> > There are many functions name with *_locked, so how about dropping 
> > lockless at all, i.e., PAGE_TABLE_WALK_TRACKING blah blah?
> 
> Thanks for the feedback!
> 
> Well, in this case it only tracks the 'lockless pagetable walks'. In
> this approach, the 'locked pagetable walks' don't need to be tracked.

So, using PAGE_TABLE_WALK_TRACKING would not be very accurate (as said
before, there are the locked ones).
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